This was not the auspicious omen one might have anticipated
I saw a report of this happening tweeted somewhere as if it was news news. In fact, going and looking for it, I see it was something that happened a year ago:
Tower of London welcomes first raven chicks in 30 years
One might have supposed, given the long-standing association of ravens at the Tower with the well-being of the nation, and that the chicks actually hatched on St George's Day, that this was a Really Auspicious Sign.
Hah.
Tower Raven fascinating facts: The Tower's current birds are called Erin, Jubilee, Harris, Poppy, Gripp*, Rocky and Merlina
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Charles II's insistence that the birds must always be at the Tower did not please everyone - astronomer John Flamsteed complained they got in the way of his work in the observatory in the White Tower
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Not all of the Tower's ravens have remained - one named Munin flew off to Greenwich for seven days before being returned. Another named George was dismissed for eating TV aerials, while Grog** was last seen outside an East End pub
*Presumably for the Dickensian association (Dickens had a pet raven of that name, and put it as a character into Barnaby Rudge).
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