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No. 186 Summer 1999 A British Flag for the New Millennium A notable feature of the Winter 1998 issue was a challenge issued by the Honorary Editor for the design of a British flag to mark our entry into the next millennium. He said "send a design, or designs, they can be quite crude, to me and I shall give a prize to the designer of that which I and two of my heraldic artist friends consider to be the best. You may incorporate the Union Flag design if you wish but neither the Royal Arms nor Crown". |
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winner was promised a prize, (quite separate from "fame, honour
and glory") of a "good book or two and a good lunch - just
one".
The entries received were gratifyingly numerous, and ranged from the simple and elegant - "less is more", to quote the late Lord Reilly - to the somewhat baroque. |
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| After the appropriate deliberations the judges, Sir Colin Cole, John Brooke-Little and John Campbell-Kease, decided to award the prize to Michael Furlong, whose design is bold, obviously British, and simple, so should be recognised on a fifty-foot flag pole. It may be blazoned Argent a saltire conjoined to a bar per pale Gules and Azur. A hint of two Ms is discernable without being overwhelming. |
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