Sentence examples for royal standard from inspiring English sources
An earlier recorded Scottish royal standard featured a dragon, which was used at the Battle of the Standard in 1138 by David I (1124 1153).
Above them flew a royal standard.
Reluctantly, the royal standard was unfurled.
"What's more, if it is royal standard, it represents a noble concept of living.
"If something is of the royal standard, it means the quality is credible," he said.
The Union Jack flies at half-staff over Buckingham Place in place of the royal standard, an emblem of the humiliation of the monarchy.
This is a royal-standard balls-up.
At Balmoral, the Royal Standard flew at full mast, at Buckingham Palace not at all-both in accord with arcane royal protocol but both jarring to the mourners' raw sensitivities.
It similarly appears in the Royal Standard of Canada, with the arms of Canada reflecting the royal symbols of England, Scotland, Ireland and France.
A variation of the Royal Standard of Scotland is used by the heir apparent to the King of Scots, the Duke of Rothesay, whose standard is the Royal Standard of Scotland defaced with an Azure coloured plain label of three points.
As well as forming the basis of the standard of the Duke of Rothesay, the Royal Standard of Scotland has since 1603 been a component of what is now styled the Royal Standard of the United Kingdom; both that version used exclusively in Scotland and that used elsewhere.
