The Standard incorporates devices associated with the name Bowes-Lyon

In heraldic terms, the Arms of The Queen Mother are described:

The Arms of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland impaling quarterly first and fourth (for LYON) argent, a lion rampant azure, armed and langued gules, within a double tressure flory counter-flory of the second; second and third (for BOWES) Ermine, three Bows, strings palewise proper.

The Arms, without any supporters, crowns or garters, is used as the Standard.