The photo was taken at the British Consulate General in Turkey in 2022, not in the U.K. in 2024. There are no credible reports of government buildings in Britain lowering their flags to half-mast ...

Flying flags at half-staff—partway down the flagpole—is ... such as to mark the death of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1965, Pope John Paul II in 2005, and Queen Elizabeth ...

According to the British flag protocol, flags should be flown at half-mast from the announcement of the death until the funeral of the Sovereign. Since Her Majesty, 96, passed away at Balmoral ...

And it is raised all the way up for one second before being lowered to half-mast. “When a British national flag is at half-mast, other flags on the same stand of poles should also be at half ...