D.C. Flubs Royal Welcome by Flying Wrong Flag for King Charles

D.C. Flubs Royal Welcome by Flying Wrong Flag for King Charles

https://www.thedailybeast.com/dc-flubs-royal-welcome-by-flying-wrong-flag-for-king-charles/

Washington, D.C. briefly rolled out the wrong welcome mat for King Charles III after flying flags near the White House that weren’t the British flag.

Photos shared on X on Friday showed Australian flags lining 17th Street, near the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, where public works crews had decked out light posts ahead of next week’s royal visit.

Instead of the Union Jack, passersby were greeted with Australia’s flag, a detail that might be technically defensible—Charles is also Australia’s head of state—but not diplomatically ideal.

“We posted those flags, but it was quickly rectified, and we were able to remove them,” a Department of Transportation official told the Washington Examiner.