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By coincidence, when trawling through Ancestry.com yesterday I noticed an Albion Somebody-or-Other but didn't check the gender. It's true, as Murasaki says, that there is the phrase "Perfidious Albion", but I take that as a badge of honour - it was a French term of opprobrium for good old traditional enemy England!
It's used poetically by Brits too, as in the phrase "Albion's shore".
Albion refers to the "whiteness" of southern England's chalky cliffs (the first thing seen from the Channel when crossing from France) so it's appropriate. The saint's name Alban is related.

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