Editing Perfidious Albion (section)

{{Short description|Pejorative epithet for Great Britain}}
{{For|the magazine|Perfidious Albion (magazine)}}

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[[File:Das perfide Albion, 1915 – front cover (cropped).jpg|thumb|A WW1-era German propaganda history magazine invoking the "Perfidious Albion" trope]]
"'''Perfidious Albion'''" is a pejorative phrase used within the context of [[international relations]] diplomacy to refer to acts of diplomatic slights, duplicity, treachery and hence infidelity (with respect to perceived promises made to or alliances formed with other nation states) by monarchs or governments of the [[United Kingdom]] (or [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]] prior to 1801, or [[Kingdom of England|England]] prior to 1707) in their pursuit of self-interest and the expansion of the [[British Empire]]. 
''[[wiktionary:perfidy|Perfidious]]'' means not keeping one's faith or word (from the [[Latin]] word ''perfidia''); ''[[Albion]]'' is an ancient and now poetic name for [[Great Britain]].