Sally Davies

Sally Davies is a writer and editor based in London.

From The Blog
23 October 2024

The first person to grasp the marketing potential of the unicorn seems to have been King James I of Scotland. Kidnapped by the English as an 11-year-old in 1406, he wasn’t released for eighteen years. When he assumed the throne, he placed a pair of rampant unicorns on his new coat of arms. 

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