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British Flags

Posted: 20 Dec 2014 4:52PM GMT
Classification: Query
Can anyone advise what the approx date should be between using the "ancient" flag with red cross on white background and modern version??

Re: British Flags

Posted: 20 Dec 2014 7:40PM GMT
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Re: British Flags

Posted: 21 Dec 2014 9:53PM GMT
Classification: Query
Both are still in use today. The St Georges cross (red cross on while background is the English flag, and so used for anything relating to England alone e.g. some sporting fixtures). The Union flag is used for matters relating to the whole UK.

Re: British Flags

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 11:48AM GMT
Classification: Query
The "Union Jack" (red, white and blue) comprises the English red and white horizontal cross of St.George's flag and the blue and white "X" cross of St. Andrew's flag of Scotland superimposed one on the other on a white background. Northern Ireland and Wales are part of the English so this "Union Jack" is used for anything involving the whole British Isles (now called United Kingdom)..

Re: British Flags

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 9:30PM GMT
Classification: Query
The Union Jack also includes the cross of St Patrick to represent Ireland so Northern Ireland is represented in that flag.

C

Re: British Flags

Posted: 18 Feb 2015 5:47PM GMT
Classification: Query
The original union flag was brought into play When James V1 became James 1 of the united Kingdom the next step was on Jan 1 1801 when the English brought Ireland into the union. This makes up the three saints on the flag, St George for England, St, Andrew for Scotland and St. Patrick for Ireland, However as far as I know they are not registered for the UK as a whole.
When the English play cricket in Australia they insist on waving the Union flag and not their own St. George only. On the matter of the Royal family if it was not for James V1 daughter Elizabeth marrying Frederick of Bohemia we would not have the Hanoverians on the throne. They would have had to accept the planteagents again. Tony Robinson did research into this and found the true heir in Australia. The ancient Royal standard of Scotland from what I understand is a blue boar on a white background that was only changed when William the lion came to the throne in the late 1100's. His younger brother visited the Western isles in 1164 to meet Somerled, Lord of the Isles ( MacDonald).
My history may be a little stale but I think I am right.

Robert Findley (Finley) of Clan Finley.
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