Britannia

Britannia is the 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 British Lion. Today she may also be holding, in one out stretched arm, an olive branch, as on the British Fifty pince piece.

See also

• John Bull, a personification of England or less commonly of the United Kingdom