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British Airways - Coat of arms (crest) of British Airways". Heraldry of the World. Archived from the original on 24 February 2022 . Retrieved 24 February 2022. Perrin, William Gordon (1922). British flags, their early history, and their development at sea: with an account of the origin of the flag as a national device. The University Press. p.55. Also I would like to say thank you to House of Flags who was brilliant at helping me decide which was the best flags to buy. Where UK government buildings only have one flagpole, the Union Flag should be flown every day except on certain occasions when you may wish to fly other flags, including but not limited to, the national flags of the constituent nations of the United Kingdom, the Armed Forces Day flag, the Commonwealth flag, county and other local flags, and other flags which may promote civic pride. a b "-kin". Oxford English Dictionary (Onlineed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)

the land for France and raised a cross that bore a shield with three fleurs-de-lys, to represent the King of France. As New France developed, a variety of flags flew over settlements and permanent communities in what became Canada. They included the The North Prospect of the City of Edenburgh". Slezer's Scotland. National Library of Scotland . Retrieved 9 January 2012.

John Cabot could have unfurled the Cross of St. George — consisting of a red cross on a white field — in 1497 when he claimed North America for the English Crown. The cross of Union Flag: approved designs". www.college-of-arms.gov.uk. College of Arms. 2023 . Retrieved 23 February 2023. Flags are powerful symbols of identity and belonging, and few are as instantly recognisable as the union flag. a b "Designated days for Union Flag flying". Department of Culture, Media and Sport. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013 . Retrieved 9 January 2013. When they’ve done that, they’ll trim off the excess fabric," says Andy. "It’s like a mosaic. The whole flag is 12 ft by 6ft. You work on each quarter at a time."

Given its prominence, reach and power, it is strange to note that the union flag has no official status in British law and is only regarded as the national flag by virtue of "custom and practice". Hidalgo said she had ensured British Ambassador Menna Rawlings of the deep sympathy and support of Paris for the people of the United Kingdom. Long live the King In response to the video of Wild questioning Davie, former Conservative MP Anna Soubry tweeted that “the toes of sensible Tories will be curling up to their knees”, but the party she once imagined herself to belong to has, it seems, long gone. The one that has replaced it knows there are votes in such calculated acts of patriotic earnestness, toe-curling or not. The following day, as flags were hoisted over all government ministries, one unnamed Labour MP was widely quoted in the papers as saying: “I can see the array of flags from my window looking over Whitehall. It is an arresting sight and makes me proud to be British.” History of the Loyalist Flag". www.uelac.org. United Empire Loyalists Association of Canada. Archived from the original on 23 September 2019 . Retrieved 18 March 2020.

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The Flags and Heraldry Committee, an all-party parliamentary group lobbying for official standards, cooperated with the Flag Institute in 2010 to publish a set of recommended guidelines for the flag's display and use as a symbol. [97] In England and Wales, flags are treated as advertisements for the purposes of the planning regime, but express advertisement consent is not required to fly the Union flag from a flagpole. The government has published a guide on the planning rules in England on flying types of flag. The high point of that relaxed inclusivity seemed to come with the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics, which captured a playful patriotic tone and wove it into an emotional history of struggle and sacrifice and commonality, one that set the stage for the unifying heroics of Team GB that followed.