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A Royal Standard is a banner which represents the person of a member of a Royal Family and is flown only in the presence of the one to whom it belongs. Where two or more members of the same Royal Family are present together, the Standard of the most senior only may correctly be flown.
A Royal Standard is, strictly speaking, not a standard at all, but a banner and may be armorial or not. The entire field of an armorial banner consists essentially of the field and charges of a coat-of-arms. To fly it constitutes an act of the bearing and use of that coat and is allowed only to the armiger. For this reason Crown of David will not supply armorial banners to the general public.
The banner of the Royal Arms of Israel and All the Holy Land may not legitimately be flown other than by civil authorities in the State of Israel or elsewhere in the Holy Land which formally acknowledge their allegiance to Jesus Christ as their King, and to which these arms have been awarded by the civil Fount of Honour.
The banner of the Personal Arms of Jesus Christ the King may be flown only where He is known to be Personally present, namely in the Blessed Sacrament, which is reserved in Catholic Churches and chapels, and in other Churches (such as the Eastern Orthodox) in which the Blessed Sacrament is - in the judgement of the Catholic Church - validly confected. This banner may therefore be displayed only on or in these Churches, and then only with the permission of the parish priest or equivalent, or his superior.
The armorial banner of Christ takes precedence over the national flags of Israel and Palestine and is correctly flown only in the Holy Land, in view of the distinct status of the Patrimony of David. The use of armorial banners is not restricted by local law in the Holy Land - elsewhere it may be.
The occasions on which the armorial banner of the Blessed Virgin Mary as Great Lady and Queen Mother would have cause to be flown are very rare, since she has in the Church no substantial presence comparable to that of her divine Son in the Blessed Sacrament. Her banner takes precedence immediately after His but, since no two armorial banners of members of the same Royal Family may correctly be flown together, hers cannot be flown on a Church or any other place at which the Blessed Sacrament is reserved.
The armorial banner of the Queen Mother might, however, be flown at any other place in the Holy Land most especially associated with her personal presence, such as a miraculous image or place of apparition certified by the Church as authentic.
THE REGENT'S BANNER
The banner of the President as officially used at present in the State of Israel is a square banner of the arms of the State within a white bordure.
Crown of David has adapted this for the the Regency of the Sovereign Throne of David by substituting a banner consisting of the Arms of the Throne quartering those of Israel, all within the same bordure.
For the President of the Palestinian Authority as the Regent of the Sovereign Throne of David within his proper jurisdiction, the crowned eagle is substituted for the falcon, and the keys crossed over a sword are placed on the red triangle in the hoist.
THE IMPERIAL BANNERS
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Jesus Christ has been given all authority in heaven and on earth, and this is reflected in the Imperial Banners of both His Majesty and the Queen Mother.
The Imperial Banners are for use everywhere outside the Patrimony of David, but are otherwise identical to the Armorial Banners in their dimensions and in the protocols for their use. The field of each is in gold and bears an Imperial Eagle displayed, holding in his dexter talon the Sceptre of Divine Mercy and in his sinister the Orb of Universal Dominion. He is double-headed, his gaze extending to both the east and the west to signify the dominion of Christ the King over the whole earth.
Each head of the Eagle is crowned with the Holy Imperial Crown of Christ the King, and the whole is ensigned with a larger version of the same Crown. From it trail two infulae, such as belong to a Bishop's mitre and sometimes to the Crown of a King or Emperor, where they generally signify the priesthood or quasi-priesthood of a consecrated Monarch, and in this specific case refer to the High Priesthood of Christ.
Traditionally a double-headed eagle is reserved to Emperors because of the universal sovereignty that tends to be associated with the title. As such the eagle is invariably crowned with the closed Crown to wear which is the exclusive privilege of an Emperor. The Holy Imperial Crown is the open Crown of a King, since this is what Jesus is by rank and title. But for His universal and supreme jurisdiction over all the earth, by which He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords, He would be of inferior social rank to an Emperor.
Though the closed Crown is an imperial privilege generally denied to Kings, the pre-eminent dignity of the Holy Imperial Crown is signified by the circlets of thorns intertwined in the arches. These testify to the authority of Jesus Christ over death itself and therefore over all things on earth as well as heaven, hell and the age to come.
The Imperial Banner of Our Lord Jesus Christ Universal King is distinguished by the uncrowned shield of His hereditary arms borne on the breast of the Eagle and by the four Sacred Hearts of Jesus situated in each of its corners. The Imperial Banner of Our Blessed Lady Queen of All Nations is identical except for her uncrowned marital arms and the four Immaculate Hearts in the four corners.
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