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Back in the day, like bare years ago, kings and queens would show off their power and wealth by bringing lions to England to show what billy big bollocks they were in the royal menageries. Combine that with the fact everybody knows lions are double hard bastards, it was a potent combo.
From there, they were associated with regality, nobility and strength and I suppose at some point, a particularly weak jawed crown muppet decided to use the emblem to project strength that he or she didn't have.
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Why is the lion associated with Britain? Have there ever been Lions here?
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