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flag of Sark. Beaumont later insisted it was still his personal flag but the Sark residents argued that it should be for the island. The dispute was settled in 1991 when
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to approve a design of the flag in which the lions were only in canton. The flag was formally granted on 4 June 2020 by the Queen; this was the final grant of arms made by her before her death.
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who wrote later: ''"Who designed it when I have no idea but I would guess it was at the instigation of my grandmother, Dame Sybil
Hathaway, sometime between the wars".''
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