Flags of Elizabeth II#Personal flag

Princess Elizabeth's personal standard prior to her accession as Queen was her coat of arms in banner form. This consisted of four quarters consisting of three lions passant for England, a lion rampant for Scotland, and a Gaelic harp for Ireland. To differentiate the arms of Princess Elizabeth from that of the King it was differenced with a white label of three points, the centre point bearing a Tudor rose and the first and third a cross of St George.{{citation|page=113|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=izvVAAAAMAAJ|title=The Nautical Magazine: Volumes 167–168|year=1952|publisher=Brown, Son and Ferguson}}{{citation|page=12|title=The Book of Flags|year=1953|author=Gordon Campbell, Idrisyn Oliver Evans|publisher=Oxford University Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t6IKAQAAIAAJ}} The flag was adopted in 1944 and was used for the first time on 30 November 1944, at the launch of {{HMS|Vanguard|23}} by the Princess.{{citation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rk8IEAAAQBAJ|title=The Last British Battleship: HMS Vanguard, 1946–1960|year=2019|isbn=9781526752277|publisher=Pen & Sword Books|author=Ray Burt}}

File:Royal Standard of Princess Elizabeth (1944–1952).svg|1944–1952

File:Royal Standard of Princess Elizabeth in Scotland (1944–1952).svg|Scottish version

Immediately upon becoming Queen, Elizabeth inherited the two versions of the royal standard of the United Kingdom. Since the 1960s, flags were introduced to represent the Queen in various other Commonwealth realms, which followed the same basic pattern: the nation's coat of arms in banner form with the device found on her personal flag.{{citation|page=256|title=Boutell's Heraldry|year=1970|author=Charles Boutell, John Philip Brooke-Little|publisher=F. Warne|isbn=9780723211204 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OR0rAQAAIAAJ}} The Queen's representatives in these nations had their own flags to represent them.{{citation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NzhoAAAAMAAJ|page=48|title=Flags of the World|year=1978|isbn=9780723220152|publisher=F. Warne}}

{{main|Royal Standard of the United Kingdom}}

Upon the death of her father, Princess Elizabeth became Queen Elizabeth II and therefore adopted the Royal Standard. This flag was used to represent the Queen not only in the United Kingdom but also overseas when she made state visits. It is the royal arms in banner form undifferentiated.

File:Royal Standard of the United Kingdom.svg|Outside Scotland

File:Royal Standard of the United Kingdom (in Scotland).svg|Scotland

File:Royal Standard of Sierra Leone.svg]]

The Queen's Sierra Leonean standard was created when she visited Sierra Leone in 1961, in her capacity as Queen of Sierra Leone.{{cite journal|title=Queen causes a frenzy in Freetown: A royal visit to Sierra Leone creates colourful boating chaos|date=26 November 1961|journal=The Observer|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2013/nov/24/queen-causes-frenzy-sierra-leone-freetown|access-date=8 November 2015}}{{citation|last1=Cathcart|first1=Helen|title=Her Majesty the Queen: The Story of Elizabeth II.|year=1962|publisher=Dodd, Mead|pages=236|quote=When she adopted a new personal flag specifically for use in Sierra Leone "to fly on all occasions when Her Majesty is present in person", the monarch endowed special ceremonial status upon one of her smaller independent states.}} The flag featured the coat of arms of Sierra Leone in banner form, which depicts a lion beneath a zigzag border, representing the Lion Mountains, after which the country was named. It also had three torches which symbolized peace and dignity. At the base were wavy bars depicting the sea. A blue disc of the crowned letter "E", surrounded by a garland of gold roses defaced the flag, which is taken from the Queen's Personal Flag.{{citation|title=Sierra Leone Trade Journal|year=1961 |publisher=Ministry of Information and Broadcasting|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V2NOAQAAIAAJ|page=52|quote=The new personal flag which the Queen has adopted for use in Sierra Leone during her visit in November. It consists of a flag of THE ARMS OF SIERRA LEONE charged in the centre with Her Majesty's own device, namely on a blue field the initial letter 'E' ... Royal Crown both in gold (or yellow) all within a ... of roses also in gold (or yellow).}}{{Cite web|date=1958 |title=SIERRA LEONE FLAGS. H.M the Queen for Use in Sierra Leone, vintage print 1958 |url=https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-sierra-leone-flags-hm-the-queen-for-use-in-sierra-leone-vintage-print-115384140.html |work=Alamy |access-date=14 May 2021}} The Sierra Leonean standard also served as the inspiration for the design and layout of her personal standard for Canada.{{cite book|last1=Bousfield|first1=Arthur|last2=Toffoli|first2=Garry|year=2002|title=Fifty Years the Queen: A Tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on Her Golden Jubilee|publisher=Dundurn|isbn=9781459714359|pages=119|quote=The inspiration for the flag came from the personal one that had been adopted at the Queen's own instigation for Sierra Leone the previous year. The Queen's flag was to be used in whatever place in the country the Sovereign personally present.}}

This flag ceased to be used when Sierra Leone became a republic in 1971.

{{main|Royal standards of Canada}}

File:Royal standard of Canada (1962–2022).svg]]

The Queen had a personal Canadian Flag in her role as Queen of Canada. The flag was adopted and proclaimed by her on 15 August 1962.{{citation|page=22|title=Canada's Flag: A Search for a Country|year=1980|author=John Ross Matheson|publisher=G. K. Hall|isbn=9780816184262 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lz1mAAAAMAAJ}}{{cite web| url=http://archive.gg.ca/heraldry/pub-reg/project-pic.asp?lang=e&ProjectID=518&ProjectElementID=1811| author=Office of the Governor General of Canada: Canadian Heraldic Authority| title=Public Register of Arms, Flags, and Badges > Registration of the Flag of Her Majesty the Queen for personal use in Canada| publisher=Queen's Printer for Canada| access-date=22 November 2012}} The flag, in a 1:2 proportion, consists of the escutcheon of the Royal Coat of Arms of Canada in banner form defaced with the distinct device of Queen Elizabeth II:{{cite web| url=http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/pgm/ceem-cced/symbl/101/102-eng.cfm#a4| last=Department of Canadian Heritage| author-link=Department of Canadian Heritage| title=Ceremonial and Canadian Symbols Promotion > The crown in Canada > The Queen's Personal Canadian Flag| publisher=Queen's Printer for Canada| access-date=24 September 2009| date=2013-12-13| archive-date=8 June 2011| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608075942/http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/pgm/ceem-cced/symbl/101/102-eng.cfm#a4| url-status=dead}} a blue roundel with the initial E surmounted by St Edward's Crown and within a wreath of roses, all gold-coloured.

The standard is protected under the Trade-marks Act; section 9(a) states: "No person shall adopt in connection with a business, as a trade-mark or otherwise, any mark consisting of, or so nearly resembling as to be likely to be mistaken for... the Royal Arms, Crest or Standard".{{Citation| last=Elizabeth II| author-link=Elizabeth II| publication-date=1985| title=Trade-marks Act| series=9.1.a| location=Ottawa| publisher=Queen's Printer for Canada| id=R.S., 1985, c. T-13| url=http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/T-13/page-3.html?term=standard#s-9.| access-date=28 October 2009| year=2008}}

The Queen's Canadian Standard was also flown sometimes in her absence.{{cite web|url=https://novascotia.ca/iga/qpflag.asp|access-date=23 December 2021|title=The Queen's Personal Canadian Flag|work=Government of Nova Scotia}} To mark the Queen's sixty years on the Canadian throne on 6 February 2012, her personal Canadian standard was unfurled at Rideau Hall and on Parliament Hill, as well as at provincial royal residences and legislatures across the country.{{cite web| url=http://lt.gov.ns.ca/news-events/entry/diamond-jubilee-events/| last=Office of the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia| title=Media > News and Events > Diamond Jubilee Events| date=23 January 2012| publisher=Queen's Printer for Nova Scotia| access-date=16 February 2012| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304003111/http://lt.gov.ns.ca/news-events/entry/diamond-jubilee-events/| archive-date=4 March 2012| df=dmy-all}}{{cite news| url=http://www.chrisd.ca/blog/50254/manitoba-queen-elizabeth-ii-diamond-jubilee-celebrations/| archive-url=https://archive.today/20120731184335/http://www.chrisd.ca/blog/50254/manitoba-queen-elizabeth-ii-diamond-jubilee-celebrations/| url-status=dead| archive-date=31 July 2012| title=Manitoba Celebrating Queen's Diamond Jubilee| date=6 February 2012| publisher=ChrisD| access-date=6 February 2012}}{{cite web| url=http://www.gov.pe.ca/newsroom/index.php3?number=news&newsnumber=8229&dept=&lang=E| last=Office of the Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island| title=Diamond Jubilee Celebrations Begin| date=3 February 2012| publisher=Queen's Printer for Prince Edward Island| access-date=29 February 2012| url-status=live| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120606125718/http://www.gov.pe.ca/newsroom/index.php3?number=news&newsnumber=8229&dept=&lang=E| archive-date=6 June 2012| df=dmy-all}}{{cite web| url=http://www.executive.gov.nt.ca/offices/protocol/NWTJubileeEvents/index.html| last=Northwest Territories Executive| title=Department of Executive > Offices of the Executive > Protocol > NWT Jubilee Events| publisher=Government of the Northwest Territories Publications| access-date=26 July 2012| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130703065742/http://www.executive.gov.nt.ca/offices/protocol/NWTJubileeEvents/index.html| archive-date=3 July 2013| df=dmy-all}}{{cite news|url=http://edmonton.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20120206/diamond-jubilee-celebrations-120206/20120206/?hub=EdmontonHome |title=Canada kicks off festivities for Queen's jubilee |date=6 February 2012 |publisher=CTV |access-date=6 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318190237/http://edmonton.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20120206/diamond-jubilee-celebrations-120206/20120206/?hub=EdmontonHome |archive-date=18 March 2012}}

{{main|Queen's Personal Australian Flag}}

File:Royal Standard of Australia (1962–2022).svg]]

The Queen had a personal Australian Flag in her role as Queen of Australia. The flag was approved for use in by the Queen on 20 September 1962, and first used during the 1963 royal visit. The flag consists of a banner of the coat of arms of Australia, defaced with a gold seven-pointed federation star with a blue disc containing the letter E below a crown, surrounded by a garland of golden roses.{{citation|title=Debrett's Handbook of Australia and New Zealand|year=1984|publisher=Debrett's Peerage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TXkZAQAAIAAJ|page=207|isbn=9780949137005 }} Each of the six sections of the flag represents the heraldic badge of the Australian states, and the whole is surrounded by an ermine border representing the federation of the states.[http://www.anbg.gov.au/oz/arms.html Government of Australia: Department of the Environment and Water Resources]

The flag is flown on Royal Australian Navy ships, or on Australian official buildings or in enclosures only on occasions when the monarch is present. The exception to this rule is parades in honour of their birthday, when the flag is flown even if the monarch is not present. When it is flown on or outside a building, no other flag is flown with it.{{cite web |title=Her Majesty the Queen's Personal Flag for Australia |url=https://www.navy.gov.au/customs-and-traditions/her-majesty-queen%E2%80%99s-personal-flag-australia |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407161333/https://www.navy.gov.au/customs-and-traditions/her-majesty-queen%E2%80%99s-personal-flag-australia |archive-date=7 April 2022 |access-date=18 December 2021 |work=Royal Australian Navy}}

On 7 July 2000, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the passage of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 by the British Parliament, the Queen attended a church service at Westminster Abbey in London. The Queen's personal flag for Australia flew at the Abbey, the first time it had flown in the United Kingdom.{{cite web |title=Her Majesty The Queen's personal flag for Australia |url=https://www.pmc.gov.au/australian-flags-booklet-part-3-other-official-flags-australia/royal-and-vice-regal-flags |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230207061231/https://www.pmc.gov.au/australian-flags-booklet-part-3-other-official-flags-australia/royal-and-vice-regal-flags |archive-date=7 February 2023 |access-date=7 February 2023 |work=Australian Government: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet}} 50x50px Text was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

{{main|Queen's Personal New Zealand Flag}}

File:Royal Standard of New Zealand (1962–2022).svg]]

The Queen had a personal flag in her role as Queen of New Zealand. It was approved for use in 1962. It was flown by the Queen when in New Zealand. The only time the flag was flown in New Zealand in the absence of the Queen, was at parades held on and in honour of her official birthday.{{citation|url=https://www.royal.uk/new-zealand|title=Symbols and ceremonies|work=Royal.uk}} The flag is the escutcheon of the arms of New Zealand in banner form, defaced with a blue roundel surrounded by a garland of roses encircling a crowned letter 'E', all in gold.{{citation|url=https://mch.govt.nz/nz-identity-heritage/flags/other-flags|title=Other flags|access-date=18 September 2021|work=Ministry of Culture & Heritage}}

The flag is divided into four quadrants: The first quadrant includes depicts four stars as representative of the Southern Cross constellation, as depicted on the national flag. The second quadrant consists of a golden fleece on a red field. The third quadrant contains a golden wheat sheaf on a red field. The final quadrant includes two crossed gold hammers on a blue field. The central stripe consists of three ships. Superimposed in the centre is a dark blue roundel bearing a Roman E surmounted by a Royal Crown within a chaplet of roses, all gold-coloured, obscuring the centre ship.{{cite web|url=https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/queens-personal-flag-nz|access-date=20 December 2021|title=The Queen's personal flag for NZ|work=New Zealand}}

The flag takes precedence over the New Zealand flag,{{cite encyclopedia|access-date=20 December 2021|url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/flags/page-3|title=Other flags|encyclopedia=Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand}} and is protected under the Flags, Emblems, and Names Protection Act 1981; Section 12(1) states: "Every person commits an offence against this Act who, without the authority of Her Majesty or (as the case may require) the Governor-General, displays or exhibits or otherwise uses any representation to which this subsection applies in such a manner as to be likely to cause any person to believe that he does so under the authority, sanction, approval, appointment, or patronage of Her Majesty or the Governor-General".Flags, Emblems, and Names Protection Act 1981, Section 12(1)

An example of the Queen's New Zealand Standard being used outside New Zealand, is at the unveiling of the New Zealand War Memorial in London, UK, by the Queen at Hyde Park in 2006. The Queen's Personal New Zealand Standard was flown, along with the Union Flag, and the flag of New Zealand on three separate freestanding flagpoles at the ceremony.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIhzmf49WLs|access-date=22 December 2021|title=The Queen, Blair and Clark unveil a memorial to New Zealand war dead|via=YouTube|work=AP Archive}}

File:Royal Standard of Trinidad and Tobago (1962–1976).svg]]

The Queen's personal flag for Trinidad and Tobago was used for the first time when she visited Trinidad and Tobago in 1966. The flag featured the coat of arms of Trinidad and Tobago in banner form, which depicts the colours of the national flag. The gold ships represent the three ships Christopher Columbus used on his voyage. The two birds above are hummingbirds.{{citation|page=73|year=1974|title=The Book of Flags|isbn=9780192731326|publisher=Oxford University Press|author=Gordon Campbell, Idrisyn Oliver Evans}} A blue disc of the crowned letter "E", surrounded by a garland of gold roses defaced the flag (obscuring the centre ship), which is taken from the Queen's Personal Flag.{{citation|last1=Pedersen|first1=Christian Fogd|title=The International Flag Book in Color, Volume 10|year=1971|publisher=Morrow|isbn=9780688018832|pages=211}}{{citation|last1=Cathcart|first1=Helen Fogd|title=Her Majesty the Queen: The Story of Elizabeth II.|year=1966|publisher=Dodd, Mead|pages=211|quote=On her Caribbean tour in the royal yacht Britannia in 1966, as Queen of the newly self-governing territories of Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, she had adopted a personal flag "to fly on all occasions when Her Majesty is present in person.}}

This flag ceased to be used when Trinidad and Tobago became a republic in 1976.

File:Royal Standard of Jamaica (1966–2022).svg]]

The Queen had a personal flag in her role as Queen of Jamaica. It was first used when she visited Jamaica in 1966, as part of her Caribbean tour. The flag consists of a banner of the coat of arms of Jamaica defaced with the Queen's Royal Cypher. The flag is white and bears a red St George's Cross. A gold pineapple is superimposed on each arm of the Cross. A blue disc with the Queen's initial is placed in the centre of the Cross (obscuring the central pineapple). The disc is taken from the Queen's Personal Flag.[http://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchAndCommonwealth/Jamaica/Symbolsandceremonies.aspx Symbols and ceremonies] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150512083703/http://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchAndCommonwealth/Jamaica/Symbolsandceremonies.aspx |date=12 May 2015}}{{citation|title=Flags of the World|year=1978|publisher=F. Warne|isbn=9780723220152|pages=102}}

File:Royal Standard of Malta (1964–1974).svg]]

The Queen had a personal flag for use in Malta, in her role as Queen of Malta.{{citation|title=Flag Bulletin, Volume 12-14|year=1973|publisher=Flag Research Center|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8SErAQAAIAAJ|quote=Queen Elizabeth, who had a special standard for use in her role as Queen of Malta, was replaced by a president as head of state.}} The flag was adopted on 31 October 1967, and first used when the Queen visited Malta in 1967. The flag consisted of the Coat of arms of Malta in banner form, which depicts the colours white and red, and a representation of the George Cross, awarded to Malta by George VI in 1942. A blue disc of the crowned letter "E", surrounded by a garland of gold roses defaced the flag, which is taken from the Queen's Personal Flag.{{citation|title=Flags of the World|year=1978|publisher=F. Warne|isbn=9780723220152|pages=27|quote=The Royal Standard had accordingly been designed for Sierra Leone, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Malta.}}{{citation|title=Flags of the World|year=1978|publisher=F. Warne|isbn=9780723220152|pages=130|quote=The Queen's Personal Standard for use in Malta was established on 31 October 1967, with the royal cypher on blue in the centre of a banner of the Arms, but this became obsolete when Malta became a republic on 12 December 1974.}}

This flag ceased to be used when Malta became a republic in 1974.

File:Royal Standard of Mauritius.svg]]

The Queen's personal flag for Mauritius was first used when she visited Mauritius in March 1972. The flag consisted of the coat of arms of Mauritius in banner form: quarterly azure and or, in the first quarter a lymphad of the last in the second, 3 palm trees eradicated vert, in the third, a key in pale the wards downwards gules, and in the issuant, from the base a pile, and in chief a mullet argent.[https://web.archive.org/web/20060721150122/http://www.gov.mu/portal/site/abtmtius/menuitem.64c8475c9c8cb1984d57241079b521ca/ Coat of Arms - Republic of Mauritius] A blue disc of the crowned letter "E", surrounded by a garland of gold roses defaced the flag, which is taken from the Queen's Personal Flag.{{citation|title=Flag Bulletin, Volume 27|year=1988|publisher=Flag Research Center|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7jIrAQAAIAAJ|pages=134|quote=PERSONAL FLAGS The Royal Standard is the flag used to represent Queen Elizabeth II throughout the United Kingdom and dependencies , in all non-Commonwealth countries, and sometimes in the dominions. .. Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, Mauritius ... Sierra Leone, Malta, and Trinidad and Tobago also had such flags.}}

This flag ceased to be used when Mauritius became a republic in 1992.

File:Royal Standard of Barbados.svg]]

The Queen had a personal flag for use in Barbados, in her role as Queen of Barbados. It was first used when the Queen visited Barbados in 1975.{{citation|page=101|quote=The flag of the Queen of Barbados was displayed when Sir Garfield Sobers was knighted by her in February 1975, being a banner of the Arms, with the royal badge in the centre, as in other Commonwealth countries.|title=Flags of the World|year=1978|isbn=9780723220152|publisher=F. Warne}}For images, see [https://preview.redd.it/6w0x9ugzi7r61.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=f48502e4421a2f8238792cb7cea0fc905c7e79df this], [https://preview.redd.it/14z5cnp0j7r61.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=30c69f4e088fe265ca9bfc639b1411f0f3fe1b23 this] and [https://www.gettyimages.in/detail/news-photo/west-indian-cricketer-garfield-sobers-receives-a-knighthood-news-photo/139236492 this]. The standard consisted of a yellow field with a bearded fig tree, a long-established symbol of the island of Barbados, and the national flower the Pride of Barbados flowers in each of the upper corners. A blue disc of the crowned letter "E", surrounded by a garland of gold roses, was displayed prominently on the flag within the centre of the tree.{{citation|page=29|title=British Flags & Emblems|year=2004|isbn=9781862322974|publisher=Flag Institute|author=Graham Bartram}}

This flag ceased to be used when Barbados became a republic in 2021.

File:Personal flag of Queen Elizabeth II.svg

The Queen's personal flag was displayed on any building, ship, car, or aircraft in which she stayed or travelled.{{cite web|title=Personal flags|url=http://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchUK/Symbols/Personalflags.aspx|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150305012954/http://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchUK/Symbols/Personalflags.aspx|archive-date=5 March 2015|access-date=4 December 2013|website=The official website of the British Monarchy|publisher=Royal household}} It often represented the Queen in her role as Head of the Commonwealth or as monarch of a Commonwealth realm in which she did not possess a unique flag.

This flag, designed by the College of Arms in 1960, bears the crowned letter E in gold, surrounded by a garland of gold roses on a blue background, with a golden fringe.Compare: {{cite book| title = Canada and the World| year=1960 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=FMLkAAAAMAAJ| issue = 5| publication-date = 1960| access-date = 2018-06-13| quote = Queen Elizabeth II has adopted a personal flag in addition to the Royal Standard. ... The flag was designed in the College of Arms under the personal direction of the Garter King of Arms, Sir George Bellow. It consists of the letter 'E' ensigned with the royal crown, the whole within a chaplet of roses, all in gold on a blue field.}}{{cite web| url= http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/gb_roer2.html#pers |title= British Royal Flags, Reign of Elizabeth II: Personal Flags of Queen Elizabeth II |publisher= Flags Of The World}} The crown is a symbol of the Queen's rank and dignity, whilst the chaplet roses symbolise all the countries of the Commonwealth.{{citation|page=184|title=Canada in World Affairs: Volume 11|year=1965|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xUQzAQAAIAAJ}}

The flag was created at the Queen's request in December 1960 to symbolise her as an individual, not associated with her role as sovereign of any particular Commonwealth realm.{{citation|page=188|title=The Royal Encyclopedia|year=1991|isbn=9780333538104|publisher=Macmillan Press}} It was designed as an alternative to the Royal Standard,{{citation|page=38|isbn=9780406174048|year=1983|title=The Modern Commonwealth|publisher=Butterworths|author=Sir William Dale}} for use chiefly in Commonwealth republics where the British heraldic devices have no historic significance,{{citation|page=9|title=The Book of Flags|isbn=9780192731326|year=1974|publisher=Oxford University Press|author=Gordon Campbell, Idrisyn Oliver Evans}} and to Commonwealth meetings where the Royal Standard would be considered inappropriate.{{citation|page=109|title=The Royal Encyclopedia|year=1991|isbn=9780333538104|publisher=Macmillan Press}}

It was first used in 1961 for the Queen's visit to India. It was flown for the first time in the BOAC Britannia in which the Queen landed at Delhi Airport.

Over time, the flag started to be used in place of the British royal standard when the Queen visited Commonwealth countries where she was not head of state, Commonwealth realms where she had no specific standard, and for Commonwealth occasions in the United Kingdom; it came to symbolise the Queen as Head of the Commonwealth.{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041021003735/http://www.royal.gov.uk/OutPut/Page454.asp|url=http://www.royal.gov.uk/OutPut/Page454.asp|title=Personal Flags|work=The British Monarchy|archive-date=21 October 2004}} Eventually, the practice evolved wherein the flag was raised at Marlborough House (the headquarters of the Commonwealth Secretariat) in London when the Queen visited, rather than the Royal Standard of the United Kingdom.{{cite web |url= http://www.royalinsight.gov.uk/output/Page5467.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081119134240/http://www.royalinsight.gov.uk/output/Page5467.asp |archive-date= 19 November 2008 |title= Mailbox |publisher= Royal Insight |page= 3 |date= September 2006}}

File:Flag of the Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom.svg]]

In 1964, the Queen assumed the office of the Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom. In this capacity, the Queen flew a special Lord High Admiral's flag. It was flown when the Queen was at sea, and at naval establishments ashore on official occasions, when it flew alongside the Royal Standard.{{citation|page=216|quote=The Queen alone could now fly the flag of the Lord High Admiral when at sea, a change dating from the unification of the MoD in 1964.|title=The Battle and the Breeze: The Naval Reminiscences of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Edward Ashmore|year=1997|isbn=9780750912525|author=Sir Edward Ashmore}}{{citation|quote=She has a special Lord High Admiral's flag that is flown when Her Majesty is at sea, and at naval establishments ashore on official occasions, when it flies alongside the Royal Standard.|title=Royalty Revealed: A Majestic Miscellany|year=2020|isbn=9781785906244|author=Brian Hoey|publisher=Biteback Publishing}}

File:Princess Elizabeth holding flowers on stage with Prince Philip and several people. Royal Visit 1951, Ontario (2).jpg|Princess Elizabeth's standard flying in the background, during her 1951 royal tour of Canada

File:The Royal Yacht Britannia in King George Dock, Hull 13th July 1977 (archive ref CCHU-4-1-9-2) (25952853264).jpg|The Royal Yacht Britannia flying the Royal Standard and the Flag of the Lord High Admiral, 1977

File:Royal motorcade (8075978363).jpg|The Queen's Canadian Standard flying on her car, at the opening of the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Alberta

File:Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at the Closing Ceremony of the XII Commonwealth Games, Brisbane.jpg|The Queen's Australian Standard being used by her at Brisbane, 1982

File:Round Tower, Windsor Castle, England - Nov 2006.jpg|The Royal Standard flying above the Round Tower at Windsor Castle, 2006

File:Royal Standard Holyrood.PNG|The Scottish Royal Standard flying over Holyrood Palace, 2007

File:Queen Elizabeth's Personal Canadian Flag at Parliament Hill.jpg|The Queen's Canadian standard flying from the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill, 1 July 2010

File:Royal wave Queen's Car.jpg|The British Royal Standard flying on top of the Queen's car during the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton

File:20150624 Die Queen am Grossen Stern IMG 5672 by sebaso.jpg|The Royal Standard flying on top of the Queen's car, during her state visit to Germany, 2015

File:Commonwealth Day parade 2019.jpg|The Queen's personal flag flying at the Commonwealth Day parade in Belize City, 2019 (Although she was Queen of Belize, she had no Belizean Standard)

• Flags at Buckingham Palace
• Standard of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
• Flags of Charles III

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