 There were still plenty of Union Flags in the audience (Picture: BBC) One viewer complained: 'Traditionally a celebration of being British. So who are all the disloyal traitors to the United Kingdom waving the EU flag? 'It should be Union Flags or nothing. This is Britain. Not the EU.' Some were saying the flag wavers should have been 'removed' from the Proms, despite the waving happening right at the end of the event. Another deeply upset viewer wrote: 'BBC must investigate how so many EU flags were waved & on display at The Last Night of the Proms. Disgraceful & misguided BBC messing up a British tradition; a political gesture which would make Sir Henry Wood turn in his grave. 'Utterly vulgar & wrong. Rule Britannia, not Rule EU!' They are waved during the national anthem (Picture: BBC) Sir Henry Wood was one of the early conductors of the Proms and famously opened the original concert with Wagner's Rienzi Overture – a German composer. This year's conductor Marin Alsop, an American-born Austrian composer, c){kind=link}
NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
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BBC Proms has come to an end for the year with the Last Night of the Proms in full production for the first time since 2019.
The mammoth orchestra production concluded with the new rendition of the national anthem, God Save The King, but this wasn’t what caught viewers attention.
At the 2023 finale, thousands of EU flags were waved alongside the Union Flag as the musical event came to an end.