England (United Kingdom)

Last modified: 1998-01-07 by vincent morley
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by Filip Van Laenen, 25-JUN-1996

• Description of the flag
• Banner of England
• Cornwall
• Hampshire

See also:

• United Kingdom

The St George is the flag of England, not the Union Jack. It is a red cross on a white field. The Church of England uses the cross of Sain-George with the shield of arms of its diocese in the canton, although in practice many, when they fly the flag at all, fly the plain cross.

Roy Stilling, 21-NOV-1995

In the book of Crampton [cra90], there is shown at the beginning a banner of England.Is this still in use or an historical banner? The arms of England are gules three leopards or.

Pascal Vagnat, 7-MAY-1996

I suspect it remains a royal flag, like the Scots one, and can only be used by the Queen.

Originally tha arms were two gold lions rampant guardant, the sinister was changed by the Tudors to a gold dragon rampant to symbolise the Union of England and Wales (the Tudors were a Welsh dynasty).

Roy Stilling, 7-MAY-1996

Henry VII's supporters were a greyhound and a red dragon. (To be seen above the entrance to Brasenose College in Oxford) I suspect it was Henry VIII who showed the greyhound the door and it was definitely was Elizabeth I who turned the dragon gold. The dragon vanished with the arrival of the Stuarts. I've always lamented its passing as it would be nice to have a Welsh aspect to the royal arms though I'm aware that as a principality it has no right to be there.

Andy T. Fear, 7-MAY-1997