West Yorkshire coat of arms-shield

Embroidered patch shows West Yorkshire coat of arms. Patch made on a yellow background with blue triangle and white rose in the middle.The two main charges form the letter W and the rose is the symbol for Yorkshire, thus creating a canting type of arms. The shield is divided into five parts which stand for the five districts, as do the petals of the rose.
In all cases the rose is a white rose; as opposed - quite literally - to the red rose of Lancashire. This white rose versus red rose harks back to the Wars of the Roses. These struggles for power between the followers of the Duke of Lancaster and the Duke of York (not the counties of Lancashire and Yorkshire) ran from 1455 to 1487. But neither Plantagenet house won in the end since it was the Henry Tudor that eventually became king. His marriage to Elizabeth of York in 1486 united the two families - and created another symbol; the red and white Tudor rose.West Yorkshire- ceremonial metropolitan counties in the north of England. Included in the Yorkshire and the Humber region. The largest city - Leeds. The population of 2,161,000 people (4 th place among the ceremonial counties)