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=== Business === The British chocolate company [[Cadbury]] chose purple as it was [[Queen Victoria]]'s favourite color.<ref>{{cite news |title=Chocolate wars break out over the colour purple |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/02/chocolate-wars-break-colour-purple/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/02/chocolate-wars-break-colour-purple/ |archive-date=2022-01-11 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=8 August 2019 |work=The Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The company trademarked the color purple for chocolates with registrations in 1995<ref>[https://www.ipo.gov.uk/tmcase/Results/1/UK0002020876A?legacySearch=False "Trade mark number UK0002020876A"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031205803/https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmcase/page/Results/1/UK0002020876A?legacySearch=False |date=2022-10-31 }}. Intellectual Property Office.</ref> and 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ipo.gov.uk/tmcase/Results/1/UK00002376879?legacySearch=False|title=Intellectual Property Office – By number results|website=Ipo.gov.uk|access-date=14 April 2017}}</ref> However, the validity of these trademarks is the matter of an ongoing legal dispute following objections by [[Nestlé]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.confectionerynews.com/Manufacturers/Cadbury-suffers-blow-in-latest-Nestle-battle-over-the-color-purple|title=Cadbury left black & blue in latest Nestlé battle over the color purple|website=Confectionerynews.com|date=19 April 2016 |access-date=14 April 2017}}</ref> [[File:Emblem of the kingdom of León of Alfonso IX of Leon.jpg|thumb|Emblem of [[King Alfonso IX of León]] (1180-1230) displayed in the 12th century ''Tumbo A'' [[manuscript]] in the [[Santiago de Compostela Cathedral]], [[Galicia (Spain)|Galicia]].]]
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