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Dieu et mon droit /ˌdjəː eɪ mɒ̃ ˈdrwɑː /nounGod and my right (the motto of the British monarch).The motto of the British monarch's coat of arms, Dieu et mon droit, could equally have served as the catchphrase of the Late Babylonian and Achaemenid kings....- It is a Latin translation of the royal arms of England, which is the French expression Dieu et mon droit, and concerning which we have the following tradition: Richard Coeur de Leon, besieging Gisors, in Normandy, in 1198, gave, as a parole or watch-word, Dieu et mon droit, because Philip Augustus, King of France, had, without right, taken that city, which then belonged to England.
- Below it appears the motto of the Sovereign, Dieu et mon droit (God and my right).
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