A Royal Family

Your Family names will be printed in a ‘Cartouche’ just like the ancient Egyptians royalties. The word “Cartouche” is actually a French word meaning ‘gun cartridge’. When Napoleon’s soldiers were in Egypt, they nicknamed this shape ‘cartouche’ because it reminded them of the shape of their gun cartridges or bullets. At the time, people could not read hieroglyphic writing, so they did not know that the cartouche surrounded the name of the pharaoh. ‘Cartouche’ became so commonly used that it has remained the standard name for the shape around the name of an Egyptian pharaoh or queen.