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As well as the Daily Mail, which other daily UK national newspaper features a lion and a unicorn on its coat of arms?
"Dieu et mon droit" meaning "God and my right", is the motto of the Monarch of the United Kingdom outside Scotland. It appears on a scroll beneath the shield of the version of the coat of arms of the United Kingdom used outside Scotland. The motto is said to have first been used by Richard I (1157–1199) as a battle cry and presumed to be a reference to his French ancestry and the divine right of the Monarch to govern. It was adopted as the royal motto of England by King Henry V (1386–1422) with the phrase "and my right" referring to his claim by descent to the French crown.
"Dieu et mon droit" has been adopted along with the rest of the royal coat of arms by "The Times" as part of its masthead. In 1785 when it incorporated the royal coat of arms half the newspapers in London were doing so. Since 1982 the paper abandoned the use of the current royal coat of arms and returned to using the Hanoverian coat of arms of 1785.
"The Times" is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title "The Daily Universal Register", adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. "The Times" and its sister paper "The Sunday Times" (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, itself wholly owned by News Corp.
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