Treacherous Albion .... = French origin: Perfide Albion.

In old English, almost an echo of what Pliny the elder wrote in Natural History:

Breoton ist garsecges¹ ealond, ðæt wæs iu geara² Albion haten : is geseted betwyh norðdæle and westdæle, Germanie and Gallie and Hispanie þam mæstum dælum Europe myccle fæce ongegen.

How language has changed. I would guess some Frysian might find it easy to comprehend if phonetically pronounced.

At any rate, Albion was the name. And according to Pliny, both Roman and Greek sources celebrated it.

It seems not only language changes. Perhaps, Francis Bacon, whenwriting King Lear had an axe to grind:

When Priests are more in word, then matter;
When Brewers marre their Malt with water;
When Nobles are their Taylors Tutors,
No Heretiques burn’d, but wenches Sutors;
When every Case in Law, is right;
No Squire in debt, nor no poore Knight;
When Slanders do not live in Tongues;
Nor Cut-purses come not to throngs;
When Usurers tell their Gold i’th’Field,
And Baudes, and whores, do Churches build,
Then shal the Realme of Albion, come to great confusion.

Here is a part of a poem written by some noble Spanish Ximenez in 1793, shining forth his neutrality, during his passionate engagement with Revolutionary France, that caused eventually the Grande Armee to march on Moskow, of whose Tsar Napoleon said: I would have knocked him up, had he been a woman:

Des Grecs et des Romains imitons le courage !
Attaquons dans ses eaux la perfide Albion !
Que nos fastes s’ouvrant par sa destruction
Marquent les jours de la victoire !

Interesting this Greco addition, since,no Greeks have been in that place to fight a war, .....Unless ... one would invoke Homer and the story of Troy ... and contemplate the name Circe (kirke?) and Zierikzee, if one would pronounce the C not as a K, but like in late latin usance with Cicero, siesero, where in pronounciation of Zierikzee, the second i like in miracle but then very soft almost non existent, as the locals do over there in Zeeland.

But, perfide Albion ... indeed, and when Russia is signalling that, after Putin also reiterating something about the traditional Western incursions into Eastern Europe and Russia, it seems our (ras)Putin has a good memory, where it concerns English meddling in Russian affairs is concerned.

See also: Charge of the Light Brigade (version with David Niven and Errol Flynn). And this also related to Florence Nightingale i.e. Red Cross ...