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Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother

by Graham Bartram

From: World Flag Database

Description of the flag
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Description of the flag

The personal flag of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, was made up of the flag of her late husband, King George VI to the hoist, and the banner of arms of her family, Bowes-Lyon to the fly.
Graham Bartram

Since Edward I it has been the custom for Queens to impale their paternal arms with the British royal arms, but I think that they were not normally made up into a banner until the right to fly the Royal Standard was withdrawn from consorts in about 1907.
David Prothero, 27 April 2002

Her family name is Bowes-Lyon, and the lions in the 1st & 4th quarters are for the Lyon family, obviously based on the Scottish arms, and the 2nd and 3rd quarters are ermine, with 3 bows (palewise) for Bowes. I believe the heraldic tradition is that the father's arms are placed in the first quarter, but Scottish / British tradition for hyphenated names puts the mother's name first. Of course this was not the Queen Mum's father and mother, but some ancestors along the line.
Dean McGee, 6 April 2002

The blue lion rampant and double-tressure on white are the arms of the Lyon family. I believe the double-tressure w