Kingdom of Greece: Royal standards

Last modified: 2003-11-22 by ivan sache
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• Royal standard: Bavarian dynasty (1833-1862)
• Royal standard: Danish dynasty (1862-1924; 1935-1973)
  • Coat of arms
  • Crown Prince's standard
  • Standard for other members of the Royal Family
  • King's broad pennant

See also:

• Greece
• Greece: Historical overview
• Greece: Evolution of the national flag. II - 1828-1970

Royal standards: Bavarian dynasty (1833-1862)

According to the decree of 4 April 1833, the Royal Naval standard is of the plain cross type with the Bavarian arms in lozengy pattern. With the end of Bavarian dynasty in 1862, the Bavarian arms disappeared.

Source: Hellenic flags. Insignia-Emblems [kok97]

Norman Martin, 1 August 1999

I guess the same royal standards as used under the Danish dynasty and shown in Flaggenbuch [neu92] existed from 1833 to 1862, with the Bavarian lesser arms instead of the Danish arms.

Santiago Dotor, 27 January 2000

Royal standards: Danish dynasty (1862-1924; 1935-1973)

by Santiago Dotor

"The last King of Greece, Constantine II, has lived abroad since 1967. His personal standard is like the [pre-1978, white-cross-on-blue] national flag, but with a large shield of the royal arms in the centre, ensigned with the Greek crown, and a small crown in each canton. The shield of arms is the same as previously used in Denmark: King Constantine is the great-grandson of Prince George of Denmark who became King of Greece in 1863." (Barraclough & Crampton, 1981 [bcr81])

Flaggenbuch [neu92] shows the Royal standard matching that description and illustration: a square blue flag, bearing a white cross with arms one-fifth as wide as the flag. The shield (without the crown) is centred on the flag, its approximate width being 4/10th that of the flag, and its height (without the crown and the lower 'tip') 9/20th. The crown's width is approximately 9/40th that of the flag, only slightly exceeding that of the cross. The four small crowns are centred on the cantons, and their width is approximately 1/6 that of the flag.

Santiago Dotor, 27 January 2000

Coat of arms

About the aforementioned former Danish arms, Barraclough & Crampton [bcr81] say: "...on the accession of Queen Margrethe II on 14 January 1972 it was decided to simplify them (...) the white cross fimbriated red which divides [the shield] into quarters has been