Washington D.C. officials briefly displayed the wrong national flag ahead of King Charles III’s visit next week, after district public works crews mistakenly installed Australian flags instead of the Union Jack along a stretch of 17th Street NW near the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
A D.C. Department of Transportation official told the Washington Examiner that the mix-up was limited to light posts in that area and was quickly corrected once identified.
“We posted those flags, but it was quickly rectified, and we were able to remove them,” the official said, adding that crews moved swiftly to replace them with the correct British flags.
The agency said the flags are typically stored and labeled, but officials are now reviewing how the error occurred.
“They’re kept in a storage room and they are labeled,” the spokesperson said, noting the department is looking into whether the flags were placed in the wrong box or mislabeled.
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