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This year’s Romance Annual portrays a pair of red fox (Vulpes Vulpes). The red fox can be found in most parts of the world and has the widest range of any terrestrial carnivore. In Great Britain, where there are no longer any other native wild canids, they are referred to simply as “the fox”. Master Carver Peter Calvesbert chose this subject for the Romance Annual as these rust colored mammals with bushy tails primarily form monogamous pairs. Peter’s signature mouse is tucked away under the brush of the sleeping one. The interior GB inscription refers to the coincidence that both the UK and US leaders (Gordon Brown and George Bush) share the same initials.