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sometimes used as a symbol of the United Kingdom

and has been associated with Winston Churchill's defeat of Nazi Germany.

The flower has been adopted as England’s emblem since

the time of the Wars of the Roses - civil wars (1455-1485) between the royal house of Lancaster (whose emblem was a red rose) and the royal house of York (whose emblem was a white rose). The struggle between the Roses ended by the marriage of Henry VII, the Lancastrian with Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV, the Yorkist. The red rose has since become the national emblem of England.

It happened in very old times when the Norsemen

wanted to settle in this country. The Scots had their camps near the river Tay, the largest in Scotland. As they arrived late in the day, weary and tired after a long march, they immediately fell asleep. The Norsemen came close to the Scots’ camps and saw there were no guards in the night and wanted to kill them in their sleep.

as to make no noise. But one of the

Norsemen stepped on a thistle. The sudden and sharp pain he felt made him scream. The Scots woke up and put the enemy to flight. Unexpected help from the thistle, the Scots took it as their national emblem.

The Scottish Bluebell is also seen as the flower of Scotland.

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National Animal -

Unicorn

the world celebrate St David’s Day by wearing either

leeks or daffodils. The link between the leek and St David is the belief that he is supposed to have lived for several years on bread and wild leeks.

We know that Welshmen wore leeks on St David’s Day in Shakespeare’s time. In «Henry V” we see mentioning of this tradition.

Day, due to the belief that it flowers on

that day. It became an alternative to the Leek as a Welsh emblem in the present century, because some thought the leek to be too simple.

There are many explanations of how the leek came to be adopted as the national emblem of Wales. One is that St David advised the Welsh, on the evening before the battle with the Saxons, to wear leeks in their caps to distinguish friend from foe.

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National Animal - Dragon

shamrock, a three-leaved plant similar to clover. An Irish

tale tells of how Patrick used the three-leafed shamrock to explain the Trinity. He used it in his sermons to represent how the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit could all exist as separate elements of the same entity. His followers adopted the custom of wearing a shamrock on his feast day.

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