Personal Standards

No, I'm not talking about washing your hands on a regular basis, or standing up to meet people, or using personal hygiene products (surely those are all a given? although attending a wargames convention might suggest otherwise) - I'm pontificating on the oft asked question on wargaming forums...Did commanders have personal standards?TL;DR answer 'no'.Here's a slightly less succinct answer.But first a note: Peachey and Prince wrote the seminal 'ECW Flags and Colours 1: English Foot' in 1991, this was planned to be the first in a series of booklets. Looking through the current Partizan catalogue would suggest that book 2 exists and covers the Scots, and book 3 the regiments of horse. However, books 2 and 3 are not the books planned by Peachey and Prince. Some of their notes and illustrations for the planned books appear in a number of other works, the most easily accessible are the Forlorn Hope Guides.The Royals... We know that Charles raised the Royal Standard at Nottingham, and also…