Flag-waving and the Proms go together like a horse and carriage. Traditionally, it was a Union flag that most people clutched, raising colours to the air for the now-contested ‘Rule, Britannia!’ sing-a-long, a tradition born out of the Second World War.
Then, as the festival became more international, other flags began to appear, decorating the red, blue and white with splodges of yellow, black and green, among others. The red, blue and white fractured into its original component parts: white and blue; red and white, and, especially when Bryn Terfel sung in 2008, there be dragons too. The yellow-starred blue has featured more prominently in recent years, particularly since 2016, with certain factions even handing out their preferred flag to audience members to sway the overall colourway.
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