Is it true swans are protected by the QUEEN?

Answer 1

Swans have left their image throughout history, from fossils in caves and the crusades of Richard I, to Arthurian Legend and Greek mythology. Aristotle, Plato and Socrates all believed that swans singing prowess was heightened as death approaches, giving rise to the idea of the swan song, or the final performance.

During the Middle Ages, the mute swan was considered to be a valuable commodity and was regularly traded between noblemen. The owners of swans were duty bound to mark their property by way of a succession of unique nicks in the beaks of their birds. It was the duty of the Royal Swanmaster to organise the annual swan-upping, a tradition that survives to this day.

The role of swan-upping was to round up unmarked cygnets and once the parentage of the cygnets had been established to the swanmasters satisfaction, the birds could be marked appropriately and returned to the wild. The ceremony exists these days in a largely symbolic form, although as an exercise it is useful in monitoring the condition and number of swans on the Thames.

The only two companies that still observe the tradition of owning swans on the Thames are the Worshipful Companies of Vintners and Dyers. The Royal swans are no longer marked, but an unmarked mute swan on the Thames is regarded as belonging to the Queen by default. The Queen still maintains an officially appointed Swan Keeper, and the ceremony still takes place on the Monday of the third week in July.

The Queen has a prerogative over all swans in England and Wales. The Swan Keeper also despatches swans all over the world, sent as gifts in the Queens name.

Answer 2

All WHITE swans are property of the royal family, as are certain types of fish. To catch and/or kill one without their express permission is poaching.

The reason that black swans are seen at stately homes is that they are not royal property, but belong to the owner of the land they are on, like any other water fowl, and used to be very expensive because they are of foreign breeding.

Black swans were a symbol of status.

Answer 3

Some, she has swan wardens (As I've read from some sources)

I'd say 99.9% true.

I've reserached the british royal administration to a certain extent historically and otherwise and it does appear true.

it ain't as pretty as you may think, definantly not a vegan pursuit...

I'm geussing pollution in the thames may have altered some of the traditions, for the benefit of the swans.. of course other elements like fishing lines and hooks, not.

Answer 4

RMS massive became into an Olympic-classification passenger liner owned by using the White action picture star Line and outfitted on the Harland and Wolff shipyard. on the evening of 14 April 1912, for the period of her maiden voyage, massive struck an iceberg, and sank 2 hours and 40 minutes later in early 15 April 1912. on the time of her launching in 1912, she became into the biggest passenger steamship interior the international. So, it rather is the super that sank on April 15, 1912, not the Queen Mary.

Answer 5

Yes they are protected by the crowns swan master

Answer 6

Yes. Technically all swans are legally the queens property. Harming, keeping or killing a swan is punishable by law.

Answer 7

All Swans are actually the property of the Queen.

Answer 8

Yes

Answer 9

Obviously she has got better things to do than go about parks and lakes protecting swans.

Answer 10

Yes - the same goes for Deer, they must be offered to the Monarch of the day's table if killed by accident.
I think that that law was intoduced by Henry the VIII - stop the peasants getting their greasy mits on em.