Ann doesn't know
Today I mostly don't know; where the three lions logo came from and how self tan works. These are serious concerns of mine which I am having to research on the old internet. I'll keep looking.
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"The origin of the three lions goes something like this. King Henry I (1100-1135) was known as the 'Lion of Justice', and kept a small zoo which included lions. He either used two lions on his shield to start with, or used one then added the other upon his second marriage to Adeliza of Louvain (1121), whose symbol was also a lion. The two-lion shield was thus a personal one for the king, not the country as a whole. Henry's grandson later came to the throne as Henry II (1154-1189), and married the doughty Eleanor of Aquitaine, whose symbol was yet another lion. By the year 1195 their son, Richard I, had combined his parents' arms to form three lions.
It is an interesting point that heraldy swept through Europe in the twelfth century faster than any plague. In arriving so quickly it left a point of confusion. Henry I's original lion was standing up or rampant. Richard's three lions were lying down (passant or guardant), and were often referred to as leopards. A leopard was seen as very much a second-class creature, being believed to be the offspring of a union between a lion and a pard (??). Thus three lions should really be three leopards."
From: www.btinternet.com/~brentours
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Mike, at 24 May 2004 at 21:30
The answer to your other question: How do sunless-tanning products work?
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Mike, at 24 May 2004 at 21:34
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