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'''Britannia''' is the [[National_Personification|national personification]] of the [[United Kingdom]].

'''Britannia''' is the [[National_Personification|national personification]] of the [[United Kingdom]].

She is usually depicted as a young woman with brown hair. She wares a Corinthian helmet and white robes. During the Victorian period she began to be depicted holding Poseidon's three-pronged trident and often stood in the ocean, this represented British naval power. Beside her is a Greek shield which sported the Union Flag, and at her feet a British Lion. Today she may also be holding, in one out stretched arm, an olive branch, as on the British Fifty pince piece. Older images of her depicts a sword.

She is usually depicted as a young woman with brown hair. She wares a Corinthian helmet and white robes. During the Victorian period she began to be depicted holding Poseidon's three-pronged trident and often stood in the ocean, this represented British naval power. Beside her is a Greek shield which sported the Union Flag, and at her feet a British Lion. Today she may also be holding, in one out stretched arm, an olive branch, as on the British Fifty pence piece. Older images of her depict a sword.

== See also ==

== See also ==