When the monarch is not in residence, the Union Flag is flown at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Sandringham House, whereas in Scotland the Royal Standard of Scotland is flown at Holyrood Palace and Balmoral Castle.

Due to this fact, The Countess is privileged enough to be the only member of the Royal Family to ride in the State Limousine with The Queen at Sandringham on Christmas Day.

However, the tradition of village signs is believed to have started in Norfolk early in the 20th century when Edward VII suggested that village signs would aid motorists and give a feature of interest on the Sandringham Estate.

Sandringham is a village and civil parish in the north of the English county of Norfolk.

Sandringham is best known as the location of Sandringham House and its associated estate.

Near to Sandringham house is the Royal Stud, a stud farm that houses many of the royal horses.

Snettisham RSPB reserve is a nature reserve in the care of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, situated near Snettisham in the county of Norfolk, England, north of King's Lynn, and close to Sandringham.

The eastern side of the bay is characterised by sandy beaches extending from St Kilda, Sandringham, Beaumaris, Carrum, and down the Mornington Peninsula to Frankston, Safety Beach / Dromana and Rye to Portsea.

Port Phillip is well served by public transport with a substantial tram network, the St Kilda and Port Melbourne light rail lines and two stations on the Sandringham railway line, in addition to bus services.

The main park is Alma Park, a large park designed by Clement Hodgkinson in 1867, which was split into two linear parks by the Sandringham railway line in 1858.

He is also responsible for the property maintenance of the Occupied Royal Palaces ( such as Buckingham Palace and St James ' Palace ) and their gardens, for the financial aspects of Royal travel, for personnel matters in the Royal Household, for the Queen's private estates ( which include Balmoral Castle and Sandringham House ) and for the commercial activities of the Royal Collection Trust ( for which annual accounts are published ).

For example she cannot talk about her three-piece suite without mentioning that it is " an exact replica of one in Sandringham House ".

Hampton is located in a wealthy bayside area of Melbourne, wedged between the suburbs of Brighton and Sandringham.

Highett is bordered by Hampton / Sandringham to the west, Hampton East / Moorabbin to the north and Cheltenham to the east and south.

A primary school was opened in 1953 and a high school in 1956, although Highett High School is now part of Sandringham College.

Elsternwick train station is on the Sandringham metropolitan train line Glen Huntly Road

Sandringham is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 16 km southeast of Melbourne's central business district.

Most people living in the Sandringham area would be oblivious to the fact that there used to be an aboriginal tribe where Sandringham is today.

The tribe where Sandringham is located is called, " Bun Wurrung ", many other tribes surrounded it such as Wurundjeri and Watha Wurrung.

Examples of this style are Harlaxton Manor in Lincolnshire ( illustration ), Mentmore Towers in Buckinghamshire and Sandringham House in Norfolk, England.

Ownership of Balmoral, along with Sandringham House in Norfolk, was inherited by Edward VIII on his accession in 1936.

A financial settlement was devised, under which Balmoral and Sandringham passed to his brother, George VI.

The BBC produced a feature-length television drama, All the King's Men ( not to be confused with the novel of the same name by Robert Penn Warren ), that focused attention on a unit ( the " Sandringham Company ") that was decimated at Gallipoli and included men from King George V's estate at Sandringham House.

Henry Hoste Henley of Sandringham, Norfolk, who was lord of the manor of Colway, near Lyme Regis, paid the family about £ 23 for it, and in turn he sold it to William Bullock, a well-known collector, who displayed it in London.

They spent Christmas at Sandringham House, before moving to Windsor Castle just outside London for much of the remainder of the war.

VR opened a second, standard gauge, electric tramway from Sandringham railway station to Black Rock on 10 March 1919, it was extended to Beaumaris on 2 September 1926.

Since 1993, HM The Queen's personal estate ( e. g. shareholdings, personal jewellery, Sandringham House and Balmoral Castle ) will be subject to Inheritance Tax, though bequests from Sovereign to Sovereign are exempt.

Edward and his wife established Marlborough House as their London residence and Sandringham House in Norfolk as their country retreat.

He ordered all the clocks at Sandringham to run half an hour fast to create more time for shooting.

This so-called tradition of Sandringham Time continued until 1936, when it was abolished by Edward VIII.

He donated his parents ' house, Osborne on the Isle of Wight, to the state and continued to live at Sandringham.

In 1998, her left hip was replaced after it was broken when she slipped and fell during a visit to Sandringham stables.

On 13 February 2002, the Queen Mother fell and cut her arm at Sandringham House.

George VI was born at York Cottage, on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, during the reign of his great-grandmother Queen Victoria.

Consequently, he was baptised " Albert Frederick Arthur George " at St. Mary Magdalene's Church near Sandringham three months later.

George VI was also forced to buy from Edward the royal residences of Balmoral Castle and Sandringham House, as these were private properties and did not pass to George VI automatically.

On the morning of 6 February, George VI was discovered dead in bed at Sandringham House in Norfolk.

From 9 February for two days his coffin rested in St. Mary Magdalene Church, Sandringham, before lying in state at Westminster Hall from 11 February.

In the 1880s, Prince Edward ( later Edward VII ) purchased his country seat of Sandringham House in Norfolk and asked Thomas Crapper & Co. to supply the plumbing, including thirty lavatories with cedarwood seats and enclosures, thus giving Crapper his first Royal Warrant.

He is buried in a vault beneath the Church of St Michael and All Angels which stands in the grounds of his home Hughenden Manor, accessed from the churchyard.

She is buried with Disraeli in a vault in the Church of St Michael and All Angels Church, Hughenden in the Hughenden, Buckinghamshire, close to the Disraeli family home, Hughenden Manor.

Blackbraes is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 1265 km northwest of Brisbane, 170 km north of Hughenden, and 280 km west of Townsville.

Porcupine Gorge National Park is a national park in North West Queensland, Australia, 1, 174 km northwest of Brisbane and 60 km north of Hughenden.

White Mountains is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 1156 km northwest of Brisbane, and 140 km south-west of Charters Towers and 80 km north-east of Hughenden.

The biggest prize money camel race in Australia is the " Sheikh Zayed International camel endurance race " held in Hughenden in Queensland. It has a prize purse of A $ 50, 000.

In the Victorian era the town was the home constituency of Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1868 and then again from 1874 until 1880 ( in fact his home, Hughenden Manor is in the nearby town of High Wycombe ).

Hughenden Valley ( formerly called Hughenden or Hitchendon ) is an extensive village and civil parish within Wycombe district in Buckinghamshire, England, just to the north of High Wycombe.

Hughenden became infamous locally as a place of clandestine marriages, and is referred to extensively as such in local records.

Hughenden has a King George's Field in memorial to King George V, and there is a village hall here too where groups such as karate, cubs, brownies, beavers, old people's groups, art club and toddler groups meet.

The village proper has one school – Hughenden Primary School which recently moved from being just a first school, ( years reception to 2 ), but is now taking years reception to year 6.

Hughenden Manor is a red brick Victorian mansion, located in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England.

The manor of Hughenden is first recorded in 1086, when formerly part of Queen Edith's lands it was held by William, son of Oger the Bishop of Bayeux, and was assessed for tax at 10 hides.

Lamb has been described as " one of the most perverse and original of mid-Victorian architects " Architecturally, he had a strong interest in the eclectic ; this interest is very apparent in his work at Hughenden.

Downley has a few interesting road names, such as " Bug Alley " which is now Moor Lane, Coffin Lane which is at the end of Moor Lane and leads to Hughenden Church.

Great Kingshill is a small village in the parish of Hughenden in Buckinghamshire, England.

Naphill () is a village in the parish of Hughenden Valley, in Buckinghamshire, England.

It is north-west of Hughenden, on the ridge of one of the Chiltern Hills, and is adjacent to the village of Walter's Ash.

Whilst a village in its own right, it is part of the Parish of Hughenden, and is located around the former border between two ancient British tribes, the Catuvellauni and the Atrebates.