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Scottish Red Ensign, used by the Royal Scottish Navy: A Red Ensign with the Flag of Scotland in the canton. 1606–1707: Scottish Union Flag: First Union Flag with the Flag of Scotland superior to and overlying the Flag of England. c.1617: An early version of the Union Flag that appears on a painted wooden ceiling boss from Linlithgow Palace
The Royal Arms of Scotland [2] is a coat of arms symbolising Scotland and the Scottish monarchs.The blazon, or technical description, is "Or, a lion rampant Gules armed and langued Azure within a double tressure flory counter-flory of the second", meaning a red lion with blue tongue and claws on a yellow field and surrounded by a red double royal tressure flory counter-flory device.
Use of the flag is first recorded with the illustration of a heraldic flag in Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount's Register of Scottish Arms, c. 1542. [5] It is possible that this is based on a precedent of the late 15th century, the use of a white saltire in the canton of a blue flag reputedly made by Queen Margaret , wife of James III (1451–1488).
English: Flag of Scotland. Ratio 3:5. The blue used is "royal" blue (Pantone 300), following the Scottish Parliament's recommendation of 2003. See also the traditional colour: Flag of Scotland (traditional).svg: .
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Fix defective geometry of the 3:5 flag (saltires too narrow in the lower fly, diagonal lines not parallel) 15:56, 14 May 2021: 1,200 × 1,440 (3 KB) GPinkerton: Used standard 3:5 ratio Union flag to match the standard 3:5 ratio Scottish flag: 00:45, 4 January 2013: 1,200 × 1,320 (877 bytes) Ricordisamoa
Pages in category "Flags of Scotland" ... Flag of Scotland; List of Scottish flags; F. Fairy Flag; R. Royal Banner of Scotland; S. Bearer of the National Flag of Scotland
This is the flag of Scotland, St. Andrew's Saltire. The colour is used here is the origional colour one would find in the Union flag and used as the national flag before a 2003 committee of the Scottish Parliament met to examine a petition that the Scottish Government adopt the Pantone 300 colour as a standard.