Removal of Royal Titles
Government organisations and agencies
All government organizations dropped the Royal titles on 1 July 1997:
- Hong Kong Police Force - formerly Royal Hong Kong Police Force
- Hong Kong Auxiliary Police Force - formerly Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Police Force
- Hong Kong Observatory - formerly Royal Observatory
Crowns and crest of disciplinary services were removed from the uniforms after the handover and replaced with the bahunia:
- Hong Kong Fire Service
- Hong Kong Police Force
- Hong Kong Auxiliary Police Force
- Customs and Excise Department (Hong Kong)
- Hong Kong Correctional Services
- Civil Aid Service
- All court rooms
Hongkong Post remove the Queen's head and crowns off stamps long before the handover. Post boxes were repainted read and older pillar boxes with crowns were removed from use.
Hospitals and private organizations
Hospitals and other non-government organizations with royal names were not renamed, but they dropped their royal patrons:
- Hong Kong Jockey Club - formerly Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club
- Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong
- Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong
- Princess Margaret Hospital, Hong Kong
- Prince of Wales Hospital
- The Duchess of Kent Children's Hospital at Sandy Bay
- Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Hong Kong) - formerly Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
After 1997, some of the organisations removed the Royal title and/or removed symbols connecting to the Royal ties.
Read more about this topic: Organisations With Former Royal Patronage In Hong Kong
Famous quotes containing the words removal of, removal, royal and/or titles:
“If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them like a fool, is set down and denounced as an impious heretic by those, whom the masses adore as the interpreters of nature and the gods. Such persons know that, with the removal of ignorance, the wonder which forms their only available means for proving and preserving their authority would vanish also.”
—Baruch (Benedict)
“Because humans are not alone in exhibiting such behavior—bees stockpile royal jelly, birds feather their nests, mice shred paper—it’s possible that a pregnant woman who scrubs her house from floor to ceiling [just before her baby is born] is responding to a biological imperative . . . . Of course there are those who believe that . . . the burst of energy that propels a pregnant woman to clean her house is a perfectly natural response to their mother’s impending visit.”
—Mary Arrigo (20th century)
“Lear. Dost thou call me fool, boy?
Fool. All thy other titles thou hast given away; that thou wast born with.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)