Standards
The Royal Standard of the Queen of Malta was a banner of the arms (identical to the national flag) with the personal emblem of Queen Elizabeth II in the centre, a crowned letter 'E' in gold, surrounded by a garland of gold roses on a blue background .
On December 13, 1974, now celebrated as Republic Day, Malta adopted a republican constitution with a President as Head of State, and the title "Queen of Malta" was abolished . Speaking in Parliament, upon passage into law of the new constitution, Prime Minister of Malta Dom Mintoff stated that "the change to a republican system is in no way meant as a sign of disrespect to Her Majesty or the Royal Family" .
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Famous quotes containing the word standards:
“The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He’s got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won’t be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That’s all there is to it.”
—Clark Gable (1901–1960)
“To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man’s character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“The standards of His Majesty’s taste made all those ladies who aspired to his favour, and who were near the Statutable size, strain and swell themselves, like the frogs in the fable, to rival and bulk and dignity of the ox. Some succeeded, and others burst.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)