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Dieu et mon droit has generally been used as the motto of English, and later British, monarchs since it was adopted by Henry V (1413–1422). This French sentence means "God and my right". Originally it was spelled Dieut et mon droict, the early Modern French spelling, but later the t in Dieut and the c in droict were taken out in accordance with present French orthography.
A French motto rather than English was chosen because the English language had only recently replaced French as the language of the English ruling classes. The motto of the Order of the Garter, Honi soit qui mal y pense (shame upon him who thinks evil of it), is also in French, though the spelling doesn't match modern French. Dieu et mon droit was allegedly first used as a password by King Richard I in 1198 at the Battle of Gisors, when he defeated the forces of Philip II of France. It meant that Richard owed his royalty to no power other than God and his own heredity, and was therefore subject to no earthly power or other monarch. This can be taken as a direct reference to the doctrine of the Divine Right of Kings. Dieu et mon droit was the inspiration for The Beatles' joke motto Duit on Mon Dei, later adopted as an album title by Harry Nilsson. The former phrase was also used on Hong Kong's bank notes from 1987.

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