Talk:Royal Standard
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The page describes the Royal Standard as "the personal flag" of Her Majesty. Actually, a blue flag with a golden "E" surrounded by a wreath of gold roses serves as the personal flag. Lord Emsworth 23:17, Dec 7, 2003 (UTC)
Yeah. It should read official flag of the monarch I think. FearÉIREANN 01:33, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Its says that the Royal stamdard never files at half mast, this is not true, when a monarch dies the royal standard is loweres to half mast. tony jones
- That is not true. The Royal Standard is the flag of the monarch, and thus when one king dies, the flag becomes the standard of his successor, who is very much alive. A personal standard can fly at half mast tho, when the holder dies. This is because no other person can hold that flag. eg the Queen Mum's standard flew at half mast on her death (but only over her offical residence, Clarence House). When QEII dies, the Royal Standard will be lowered at the place she dies, and raised at the place of her successor. Astrotrain 20:09, May 12, 2005 (UTC)
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- Flying the Royal Standard at half mast would technically mean the end of the monarchy itself! David
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AFAIK it has only been flown at half mast twice, both by a junior staffer whose act was immediately reversed. When Edward VII died in 1910 someone lowered the standard to half mast. George V noticed it and had it raised to full mast again. In 1997 it was lowered wrongly after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Within minutes it was raised again.
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Image:Animated-union-jack-01.gif SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF LONDON\(caint) 8 July 2005 20:35 (UTC)
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- When was it raised after the death of Diana? At Balmoral Castle? Astrotrain 13:24, July 17, 2005 (UTC)
Irish Version
I have seen a version of the Royal Standard which contains a gold harp of Ireland on a blue field in the first and fourth quadrants, and the English and Scottish flags in the other two quadrants, was this a version for Ireland or is it still used when the Queen is in Northern Ireland? Keith 11:17, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
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- Where did you see this? There is no Royal Standard for Ireland, or Northern Ireland in use. Astrotrain 18:11, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Formatting
This article really needs to have the flags in the appropriate sections. Might need a bit of work though to get stuff not overlapping? Morwen - Talk 23:22, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Channel Islands
Is there a special Royal Standard used in the Channel Islands? The World Flag database only shows the flags of the Lieutenant Governors of Guernsey and Jersey (it seems to be the same) but nothing flown by the queen herself.--Hun2 14:08, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
- As the Channel Islands are not seperate relams, they are possessions of the British crown, so the Queen would use the main Royal Standard while present on the islands. There may have been a flag for the Duke of Normandy at one point, but I am not sure what that would have been. Astrotrain 14:12, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] New image
Please take a look at this page. Image:Hanoverian Royal Standard.png
- I much prefer it to the older image. The colours are better. A good replacment Sotakeit 14:04, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Past standards
Maybe infromation on past royal standards would be interesting, what to yout think? Sotakeit 14:06, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
- There are four: Malta (SVG flag on the commons), Mauritius (GIF flag at FOTW), Sierra Leone (GIF flag at FOTW) and Trinidad and Tobago (GIF flag at FOTW). Would be great if you could add material on that to the article! —Nightstallion (?) 20:37, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
- Image:Royal Standard of Malta (1964).svg has been uploaded (found on Queen of Malta) Brian | (Talk) 22:06, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] {{UKFlags}}
I have removed the template {{UKFlags}} as this article talks about Royal Standards from across Commonwealth Realms; not just in the UK Brian | (Talk) 01:40, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
- But, some of the Royal Standards are flags of the UK, and others are flags of Canada, which is why I inserted {{CanadaFlags}}. Should we include all available templates, or simply leave them all out? --gbambino 15:28, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
- Canada, Australia and New Zealand have their own national Royal Standard articles, with the respective flag templates placed. The UK article is here so should have the UK template for navigational purposes. Astrotrain 12:33, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
It seems odd that the oldest of the royal standards doesn't have its own article. --gbambino 14:41, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] half staff
Guys, I don`t know how to correct a mistake in this article...the Royal Standard didn't fly half staff when HRH Princess Diana died. The Union Jack did. The thing is that till that moment when the Queen was not at Buck Palace any flag flown in Buckingham Palace. That's why there was no flag at the palace when Di died as the Queen was in Balmoral. An the Queen order to place the Union Jack half staff but never the Royal Standard. It's impossible to put the Royal Standard half mast.
- Agreed; thats what I thought; was not 100% sure; I'll fix Brian | (Talk) 06:43, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
Great, Brian!!!! Thanks a lot...the article looks much better now!!!
[edit] HRH
Is there a technical reason for the heavy use of HRH here? Normally it is discouraged by the manual of style. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 18:41, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Copyright violation?
Parts of this article (most of the introductory section, and perhaps the images, at least) appear to be copied from www.royal.gov.uk . Can the author confirm that he has the necessary permission to copy, and add an acknowledgement to the text? JCBradfield 19:27, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
