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Originally Posted by Chris
I think it’s possible that the issue was that the monarch’s presence at a house isn’t what leads to the standard being flown - it’s residence. Charles was with the Queen but he wasn’t staying at Balmoral, he was staying at Birkhall, elsewhere on the estate.
Strict protocol would require the standard to be lowered at Balmoral until Charles instructed that he would be staying (in residence) there.
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Royal Standard is never flown at half-mast, even at the death of the serving sovereign, succession being immediate, there is always a monarch, so it flies at full mast only and it does fly even when the Monarch is only visiting a palace.
Errors do happen. It once flew at half-mast when King Edward VII died, until King George V spotted the error.