Talk:Queen's Personal New Zealand Flag

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BetacommandBot 21:49, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Royal Standard of New Zealand

Why is this article called the Queen's Personal New Zealand Flag and not the Royal Standard of New Zealand for Queen Elizabeth II in her role as Queen of New Zealand with the symbols of New Zealand. The only thing that is personal to the Queen is the disc of the royal cypher in the centre of the flag that is taken from the Personal Flag of Queen Elizabeth II. Mr Taz (talk) 21:25, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Because it follows the form of flags used traditionally for non-hereditary titles—non-hereditary offices often have the office's flag embellished with symbols of the office-holder: e.g. various French or Spanish presidential flags with the symbols or initials of the president, bishops in Roman Catholic or Anglican churches who impale their arms with the arms of their diocese etc. They are all personal flags in this same sense. Russia and a few other nations used to have plain monogrammed square flags (and see why there is a plain blue flag with an E?) I guess a future President of New Zealand will just use his letters instead of the E :D 118.90.15.97 (talk) 12:47, 29 November 2009 (UTC)