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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. James Purnell, Culture Secretary from June 2007 to January 2008 in Brown's administration, subsequently concurred with the abolition of the restrictions – pending consultation on longer term arrangements. However, the meaning behind the use of the flags by pro-democracy protestors, including the Union Flag, remains disputed with protestors citing a variety of reasons for flying it. [119] Some pro-democracy protestors that flew foreign flags, including the Union Flag, did so in an effort to attract international media attention to the protests, while others did so in an effort to irritate the central government of China. [119] [120] The Union Flag, in addition to other foreign flags, were also used by some protestors to illustrate their desire for Hong Kong to be an "international city"; whereas others used the flag simply as a generic symbol of freedom. [119] [121] [122]
Various shades of blue have been used in the saltire over the years. The ground of the current Union Flag is a deep " navy" blue ( Pantone 280), which can be traced to the colour used for the Blue Ensign of the Royal Navy's historic "Blue Squadron". (Dark shades of colour were used on maritime flags on the basis of durability.) In 2003 a committee of the Scottish Parliament recommended that the flag of Scotland use a lighter " royal" blue (Pantone 300) (the Office of the Lord Lyon does not detail specific shades of colour for use in heraldry). Aviators, British Airways To Fly To Serve". British Airways . Retrieved 24 February 2022– via YouTube. Union Flag: approved designs". www.college-of-arms.gov.uk. College of Arms. 2023 . Retrieved 23 February 2023. A Proclamation Declaring His Majesty's Pleasure concerning the Royal Style and Titles appertaining to the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and its Dependencies, and also the Ensigns, Armorial Flags, and Banners thereof"This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( May 2011) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
The North East View of Edinburgh Castle". Slezer's Scotland. National Library of Scotland . Retrieved 9 January 2012. Signs of Heraldry". Ashburton Guardian. Vol.XLII, no.9409. National Library of New Zealand. 13 December 1921. p.5 . Retrieved 9 January 2012. In objecting to the design of the Union Flag adopted in 1606, whereby the cross of Saint George surmounted that of Saint Andrew, a group of Scots took up the matter with John Erskine, 19th Earl of Mar, and were encouraged by him to send a letter of complaint to James VI, via the Privy Council of Scotland, which stated that the flag's design " will breid some heit and miscontentment betwix your Majesties subjectis, and it is to be feirit that some inconvenientis sail fall oute betwix thame, for our seyfaring men cannot be inducit to resave that flage as it is set down". [64] Although documents accompanying this complaint which contained drafts for alternative designs have been lost, evidence exists, at least on paper, of an unofficial Scottish variant, whereby the Scottish cross was uppermost. There is reason to think that cloth flags of this design were employed during the 17th century for unofficial use on Scottish vessels at sea. [65] [66] [67] This flag's design is also described in the 1704 edition of The Present State of the Universe by John Beaumont, which contains as an appendix The Ensigns, Colours or Flags of the Ships at Sea: Belonging to The several Princes and States in the World. [68]Grieve, Martin; Southworth, Christopher; Prothero, David. "United Kingdom: Regimental Colours". Flags of the World . Retrieved 9 July 2009. Police Emblems and Flags Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002". Opsi.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 9 December 2009 . Retrieved 14 June 2010. PANTONE. "PANTONE 186 C – find a PANTONE Color". www.pantone.com. Archived from the original on 15 May 2021 . Retrieved 16 November 2017.
Griffiths, James (26 June 2016). "Hong Kong handover: The protest symbols China's scared of". CNN. WarnerMedia . Retrieved 25 June 2020.
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Loh, Chris (21 June 2020). "The Evolution Of The British Airways Livery". Simple Flying . Retrieved 26 May 2022. Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1986) [1904]. The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopædia of Armory. London: Bloomsbury Books. p.399. ISBN 0-906223-34-2. The Position of Ulster". Ashburton Guardian. Vol.XLII, no.9413. National Library of New Zealand. 16 December 1921. p.5 . Retrieved 9 January 2012. UK Flag Protocol – Position of Honour". Archived from the original on 7 July 2020 . Retrieved 7 July 2020. While the flag appears symmetric, the white lines above and below the diagonal red are different widths. On the side closer to the flagpole (or on the left when depicted on paper), the white lines above the diagonals are wider; on the side farther from the flagpole (or on the right when depicted on paper), the converse is true. Thus, no change will be apparent when rotating the flag 180 degrees, but if mirrored the flag will be upside-down.
The current national flag of New Zealand was given official standing under the New Zealand Ensign Act in 1902, replacing the Union Flag. [109] [110] However, the Union Flag continued to see tandem use with the national flag of New Zealand into the 1950s. [109] South Africa [ edit ] Tracey, James D. (1997). The Political Economy of Merchant Empires: State Power and World Trade, 1350–1750. Cambridge University Press. p.117. Hannan, Daniel (15 June 2019), "Hong Kongers know the values behind the Union flag – but do the British?", The Telegraph , retrieved 5 July 2019 A white-fimbriated symmetric red cross on a blue field with a white-fimbriated counterchanged saltire of red and white. 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.a b c d e f g Sum, Lok-kei (22 August 2019). "Are Hong Kong protesters pro-American or British when they wave the US and UK flags? The answer is complicated". South China Morning Post. SCMP Publishers . Retrieved 26 June 2020. The Union Flag is flown at half mast from the announcement of the death of the sovereign (save for Proclamation Day), or upon command of the sovereign. [93] a b c Marshall, Tim (2017). A flag worth dying for: the power and politics of national symbols. New York, NY: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. ISBN 978-1-5011-6833-8. OCLC 962006347. Namely by King Henry VII, the first Tudor monarch of England (see images commons:Category:Coats of arms of King Henry VII of England) Union Flag: Specification". The Flag Institute. Archived from the original on 7 August 2021 . Retrieved 7 August 2021.
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