The Crown owns all of the Mute Swans in England.
They are the only ones legally allowed to eat it.....it tastes bad anyway, fishy.
It is a Crime to be caught killing one deliberately.
They are also one of the two actual land owners in England. The Church and the Crown, that's it. Everything else is “FreeHold”.
Thank you. I will inform Tom about the “mute” detail.
We don’t really own our land, either, since they can take it if we don’t pay the property tax.