Flags of the Royal Family, United Kingdom

Last modified: 2005-07-23 by rob raeside
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by Vincent Morley

• Explanation of the royal standard
• Personal Flag of Queen Elizabeth II
• Queen's standards in Commonwealth countries
• Standard of Princess Elizabeth (before accession)
• Standard of Prince Philip the Duke of Edinburgh
• Standard of Princess Margaret
• Standards of children of the British sovereign
• His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales Personal Standard
  • Welsh Standard of His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales
  • Prince of Wales Standard for Scotland
• Standard of Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal
• Standard of His Royal Highness the Duke of York
• Standard of His Royal Highness the Earl of Wessex
• Princess Diana, later Diana, Princess of Wales
• Prince William's Standard
• Prince Henry of Wales' ("Prince Harry") standard
• Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
• Standard of "other members" of the Royal Family
• Flags on the Royal Yacht Britannia

• United Kingdom
• British Royal Standards since 1042 to Union of the Crowns
• British Royal Standards from Union of the Crowns to Today
• Royal banner of Scotland
• Royal banner of Henry VII
• Royal standards of Hanover 1714-1866
• Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee flags

The version of the British Royal Arms in which the Lion Rampant banner of Scotland is in the first and fourth quarters of the shield (with the English banner in the second, and the Irish harp, as is normal, in the third) is widely seen in Scotland and it is in fact the Royal Standard within Scotland (as opposed to the Royal Standard of Scotland,). The United Kingdom actually has two different achievements of Royal Arms:

1. England 1st and 4th, Scotland 2nd and Ireland 3rd, with Lion (English) and Unicorn (Scottish) supporters, and the English Royal Crest (crowned Lion Passant Guardant on a Royal Crown). Motto: "Dieu et Mon Droit" = "God and My Right" (English). This is the form used in England and Wales and to symbolise the UK overseas.