Registered: The International Register of Arms, 21st November 2008. Registration No. 0144.

Arms: Gules on a chevron argent between three double-headed eagles displayed Or three wolves' heads erased Vert. A three point label for cadency.

Crest:  A tree trunk rising from a grassy mound scattered with petals and putting forth a leaved branch, suspended there from by a line Or a cornucopia Gules banded Argent replenished proper.

Motto:  Spei Bonae Atque Animi

Grant:  College of Arms Grant to Richard Bruce Bernadotte MILLER Esq of Cape Town, South Africa. Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy and Ulster Kings of Arms. 23/12/2005. Folio 171/205.

The wolves’ heads represent the English family of Miller, the double-headed eagles represent d'Alvarez de Asturias, Borcherds and Wiber; those families having served in the Holy Roman Empire.

The tree trunk in the crest indicates descent from the Old Cape family of Borcherds. The cornucopia alludes to the original grantee's marriage to Mary Magdalene Bernadotte Miller (nee Vermeulen); in art the Magdalene is often represented pouring ointment from a horn. It is imagined that some of the petals that lie on the ground have fallen from the horn of plenty, whereof the three colours (white pink and blue) are significant to the three children of the family.

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