This latest contribution from MOR seems to imply that the Union Flag has no actual legal status at all!

Apart from a naval flag that is...

Well back in 1908 Parliamentary approval was given that this should be regarded as the National flag and has been taken as such for somewhat longer. It is a recognised flag around the world.

And the idea that the Welsh cannot be sailors is plain insulting. The fact that it has no naval base cannot decry the Welshmen who have served for centuries in the "Senior Service". The ports of Wales provided coal to the world from Porthmadog to Cardiff. Watch the movie "Tiger Bay" sometime.

I did not know we had a member of the College of Heralds residing in Virginia...

Oh dear you have got me defending the Union Flag now, imperfect and discriminatory as it is.

Yes indeed, Wales is not represented upon the Royal Standard either (interestingly that is different in Scotland with the Royal Standard of Scotland in the first and fourth quadrants whereas in England it is only in the second quadrant).

There could indeed be a case for a Royal Standard in Wales following the Scottish model. Neither the Queen nor Prince Charles have an official residence in Wales from which they could fly it, however, and the brief visits to the Senedd would make its appearance somewhat rare.

There are problems involved even in dropping, say the fourth quadrant lions of England for the Lions in the Welsh standard however as there the first and fourth with a red lion on a gold field, and the second and third with a gold lion on a red field would be difficult to squeeze in.

That the Kingdom of Hanover should ever have been on the Royal Standard will be a surprise to many Welshmen in the first place even as an "escutcheon of pretense"!

I for one am no republican and believe it or not many nationalists are still monarchists.