Union Jack Flag Flown Upside Down During King Charles and Queen Camilla's Visit to Arlington Cemetery
Earlier, there were reports of trump's team wanting to use the Australian flag instead of the Union Jack. trump does not care about protocol and other countries flags. An upside down Union Jack is sign of danger
Union Jack Flag Flown Upside Down During King Charles and Queen Camilla's Visit to Arlington Cemetery - People
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After saying farewell to President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump on April 30, the King, 77, and Queen, 78, visited the military cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, to pay their respects at one of the United States' most significant sites of military remembrance.
There, the royals laid a wreath and posy at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to honor the fallen and the military partnership between the United Kingdom and the United States, but a problem was spotted with the Union Jack flag on parade there.
The national flag of the U.K. featured in the King and Queen's escort was flown upside down.
Britain's Flag Institute explains that there is a correct way to raise the national emblem. To fly the Union Jack in the proper position, "in the half of the flag nearest the flagpole, the wider diagonal white stripe must be above the red diagonal stripe, as Scotland's St. Andrew's Cross takes precedence over Ireland's St. Patrick's Cross.".....
The flag mishap was the second such snafu to make waves during King Charles and Queen Camilla's state visit to the U.S. this week to commemorate America's 250th anniversary of independence.
On April 24, the Friday before the trip kicked off, ABC News reporter James Longman said that Australian flags were briefly raised alongside American flags on the light posts lining a major thoroughfare of Washington, D.C., the King and Queen's first major stop stateside.
"For about two hours, they put the Australian flag up alongside the Stars and Stripes… I think they realized their mistake, and they've replaced them now with the Union Jack," Longman said in a video shared to Instagram.
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And maybe no-one in trump's state department has the internet to look it up.
I learned this as a kid in England and yeah, I know it's subtle but they are supposed to get things right. 
I am a lefty (politically) and want us to be on top of the right wing (so I look to the top left of the flag), and we should also have more power than the cross/religion (ie push down on and place a check against the power of religion, which is represented in this case, thematically, by the red cross diagonal line inside the top left quadrant of focus).
Also, the top left is where the 50 stars are on the US flag, so that is another way to remember what part of the Union Jack to focus upon. Then just remember the red diagonal cross line (ie the representaion of religion for me in my mental construction) is pushed down more on the top left when the UJ is correctly flown.
It's like St. Patrick's cross is "wound a little counterclockwise" so that the centerlines do not match those of the St. Andrew's cross -- a case of "symmetry breaking", which reduces the point group symmetry from potentially D2 to C2 -- there is a two-fold axis perpendicular to the plane, but none within the plane, and NO mirror planes.
I'd go a little easy on the soldier who didn't see that (and you know it was someone low on the chain of command who ultimately mounted the thing).
The King and Queen noticed.
But they’re intelligent enough to not make a stink about it.
How would you feel if the Canadian flag was flown upside down in Washington?
