We should all voluntier to create a self domocratic country without westminister

@@flynnguest8323 yep...thats the dream...im here for it 👆

Well said! I live in Wales and would welcome a kind hearted Welsh Prince that is actually Welsh and cares about ALL children. I wrote to the Queen of England and asked her to help save our School Field and Butterfly Meadow in Wales. The English Queen made it a RULE NOT TO HELP our Children. I then wrote to Welsh Actor Michael Sheen and told him fairy Artist Josephine Wall supports saving our school field and meadow. He said YES to supporting our children. Both these kind people are not paid by the tax payer, unlike the Queen was, who took an oath to support all British people. I can safely say I am not a ROYAL FAN! Michael Sheen said, "Willy where did you get that title (Princes of Wales) - he replied his father (King Charles). In the words of Dylan Thomas Poet "Give it back then LOVE!"

@@flynnguest8323 absolutely agree!!! And I am with you representing the Pembrokeshire faction :) This bs we are fed that Wales is too poor/weak to be independent is utter rubbish. We have a £76 billion GDP which is higher than some other small independent EU countries. Westminster tries so hard to brainwash the people of Wales that we cannot survive without England and it has worked for a long time. The tide is turning. DROS ANNIBYNIAETH!!

@@mumzeewarrior8708 Doesn't surprise me. I vote for Michael Sheen to be the new Prince of Wales. Mate of mine does PR for Ty Hafan (Children's Hospice in Wales) she tweeted Mr Sheen if he'd like to help out in retweeting some of their campaigns. He did better than that; replied and asked for a call with her to discuss what PR they needed and what he could do. Now he's Ty Hafan's Ambassador. Absolute legend!!!

My seventh great grandfather John The Ranger Holladay married Ann Elizabeth Lewis in colonial Virginia. Her father was John Lewis II of Northumbria. Four generations before John II was his fourth great grandfather Edward Llewys. Notice the name change. His father was Sir Richard Lewis/Lewys/Llewys, of Sychdin, born 1510 Penarth, Glamorgan, Wales and died in1546 in Turkey fighting the Crusades. Deus Vult!

@@3qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq10 that’s so awesome! Well we are definitely related somewhere down the road.

@@3qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq10 mate please explain which Crusade occurred in Turkey in 1546 as I've never heard of one 🤔

@@eddhardy1054 actually just looked at the timeline and found this: 1544-05-01 Turkish troops occupy Hungary 1547-06-13 King Ferdinand of Austria subjects himself on Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent/ Maybe his descendants got some dates wrong.

@@3qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq10 fairplay

Owain Glyndwr was hidden at Kentchurch, Herefordshire, England by his daughter Alice Glyndwr and her husband Sir John Scudamore I. Owain died on 20 Sep 1415 in Mornington or Kentchurch, Herefordshire, England. Owain would disguise himself as a priest when the English searched for him at Kentchurch.

You are dead right

@@ffotograffydd thanks for the enlightenment and does make sense regards to the general English folks of that time. However even your recollection is or has been tainted by the people who wrote our history which generally is set out to favour the writer and to confuse and suppress the Truth regards to we contemporaries. Unless we were there at that time to witness the events we'd never ever know the absolute truth and goings-on. God bless you for Swansea

@@ffotograffydd This is precisely the point and my point too. It isn't your recollection, your laying claim to writings which or may not be true, hence why your comment is exactly down to interpretation. Your reply stand's up to scrutiny and doesn't stand up to logical analysis. Basically for you to understand, your reply in itself, the word's and explanation there of, don't make sense. We're all biological Parrots reading from scripts and the script is called History written by other's hand's. You would of had to be there I'm afraid. Like when I'm walking along the beach then I'm actually there experiencing.

@@ffotograffydd Then again none of them really like the natives of their country, did they?

Yep, Rebellion implies they are one and the same people. They weren't, never was, never have been.

A rebellion is totally the same as a war for independence, it's just a matter of who's side you on & who won. The US say War of Independence, the UK say Rebellion by ungrateful tax dodging colonists but they're the exact same thing 😉

@Grand Imperial Majesty of the Great Song Dynasty oedd.

Homer Wiggins Welsh instrumental folk music wouldn't be as strong as the irish folk scene they are known more for there choral singing tradition and welsh language poetry.Irish gaelic is on life support neither live nor dead and scots gaelic confined to the remotest parts of scotland not so with welsh its the community language of large parts of wales and basically they have built there culture around the language with the eistedfoddu (not sure about the spelling).Eistedfodds are festivals held every year through the medium of welsh and the showpiece is the crowning of the bard ,basically the best poet in the welsh language.

The Celts were a single tribe in Southern France. No Celt ever set foot in Britain OR Ireland.

@@taffyducks544 This is not true, mate. Celt is short for Celtic. Welsh, Scottish and Irish are Celtic. as are Cornish, Brittany and Isle of Man.

A great Welsh song song from the early 1800's is "Dacw Nghariad". Modern versions of it are on youtube. You can also find the lyrics (including English translation) on google.

@@gitaryddcymraeg8816 have you heard Pais Dinogad? It’s from the 6/7th century and in Brythonic. It’s beautiful too.

Yeah, Morgan developed from the Name Morcant, A Royal name within Wales that has links to the son of Arthwys Ap Meurig, who is regarded as the Real King Arthur. This is why we had the Kingdom of Glamorgan and now have the County of Glamorgan. Gwlad Morcant (literally translated as the Nation Of Morgan)

@@taffyducks544 thanks for the cool info!

1st time also hearing

How? He came within one battle of Englands conquest. He did far more to destabilise England than William Wallace ever did.

Check out Britain's hidden history plenty of Welsh history there for you

Comes from the name "Ap Rhys": son of Rhys which mutated to Prys, Price, Preece ("ap" in Welsh being similar to "Mac" in Scotland & Ireland, "son of").

Indeed. This is why I don't get the sense of superiority some English have when regarding Wales as an easy target. I often respond with "didn't you suffer the same fate 200 years earlier"? It makes no sense for anyone to use it as a point of reference for a superiority complex. I must commend you for understanding your own Nations history better than your average Joe.

@@taffyducks544 I think its just a weird part of anglo culture to identify with the victor rather than accept they were part or a broken people or culture. But seeing as the norman aristocracy held on to power for so long maybe it was just indoctrination over a thousand years. i dont think many realize that there hasnt been an ethnically english monarch of england since 1066.

I think part of the reason may be the stink eye we English get from some of our Welsh neighbours whether we act in a superior way or not. I guess we think 'well if we're gonna get blamed for Norman Imperialism we may as well double down and own it' 😉😊

Edward longshank was the first king to class himself as English and all so use English in the court of law. It was the English. Not Norman’s.

Owain Glyndwr is my 20th Great Grandfather. I have the paper trail to prove it. He is my family's only Welsh line of descend. My sister Tina has 2% Welsh dna.

Glad you liked it!

You are referring to the Battle of Bryn Glas (aka Battle of Pilleth). The English under the leadership of a Marcher Lord comprised of English knights and men at arms marched into mid Wales. It is thought that Glyndwr had embedded the archers in the English army and when the English army attacked Glyndwr they fired on the English from the back and sides. Strategically it was a brilliant win seeing as the Welsh force was outnumbered 4:1.

There are things called books, they're like tv but for smart people. They even print them them on Welsh history. if you want to know specifically about Owain Glyndwr, try "the revolt of Owain Glyndwr" by RR Davies.

@@philldavies7940 , thanks, sarcastic asshole. I know all about books. I've read many.

@@ffotograffydd Yes I know, However...the Reason why Henry the VIII Had to annex Wales was because his father (Henry Tudor) wasn't King of the Kingdom of Wales, which was unified in 1057. If he had been, Henry the VIII Would've already been in possession of it and the need for annexation wouldn't have come about. The fact that Wales was annexed by England proves its prior autonomy. The reason also as to why it was so easy to annex it - its because the Welsh of the day saw the battle of Bosworth field as the fulfillement of the prophecy known as the Mab Darogan. Little did they know those actions could be used by future English generations to Claim Wales was annexed due to conquest. Annexation and occupation (Not Conquest) of Wales occured almost 300 years a part. Wales as a distinct political and cultural entity wouldn't have survived for this long had it been a part of England. Are you unaware that the Tudors were nobodies in Wales? The link to Rhodri Mawr meant little as He never United the entirety of Wales, thats only ever occured under the Welsh kings of Glamorgan and Gwent. In 55CE, 383CE, 537CE, and 1057CE.

@@ffotograffydd You can't deny many English love to throw such words about. Ofcourse I'm not suggesting you yourself specifically do. But I've met many an Englishman who does. Would it put your mind at ease if I were to re-phrase? - how is, Many Elite (including Royalty) English can, and do use it as excuse to say Wales was conquered?

@@taffyducks544 so-called elite English?

@@ffotograffydd why else would you be so interested in the wording used to describe a historical fact?! I assumed based upon your comment. Am I incorrect?, if so. Where are you from?

@@gazpal Barons, Dukes, Earls, Princes, Kings, Banksters, etc. Who else but those that make internal and external policy

Geneticists reckon just about everybody in Europe has a common ancestry traced back to Germany in the 14th century. So its very likely everybody in the UK has some mixture of Welsh, Scottish, irish and English blood as well as Scandinavian, Germany and French.

< HERE I AM! 👽-OWAIN GLYNDWR

Saint Fagans should definitely get this in stock

Owain Glyndwr is 20th Great Grandfather. He is my only Welsh line of descend My siblings and I had our dna tested. My sister Tina has 2% Welsh dna.

@@d.kyrstede3556 I don't have much Welsh ancestry, my great great great grandfather was an immigrant from Ireland though and my great great grandfather was an immigrant from Scotland which makes me 7% Irish and 6% Scottish respectively

< HERE I AM! 👽-OWAIN GLYNDWR

Owain Glyndwr is my 20th Great Grandfather

Mate why would you want to wear a (Scottish) kilt in order to honour your Welsh great grandfather??? You might as well wear a Japanese kimono 🤔

Welsh tartan is a modern thing, we didn't have any kilts/cilts which was a dutch or french thing before it ever was a Scottish or Irish thing if I remember right.

Owain Glyndwr was one of your grandfathers, crikey, you must have been born about 1400 then. Glyndwr is suspected of living out his days with his daughter and son-in-law, Alys and John Scudamore on the Welsh marches /Hereford area., Further rumour that the Scudamore family knows where he was buried but are sworn forever to keep it secret.

I'm sure I appreciate what little I have. I'm not sure it's just the movies though. Maybe it's just the region I live in but it appears that the Americans who have lived here for a hundred or more years are Scot, Irish and German, and most of us are a mix of the three. I'm Scandinavian and Norman English and Norman Scot mostly. But I'm 5 percent Irish, 5 percent Welsh, 4 percent German and 1 percent Russian.

@@3qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq10 no, he is very much correct. Take the Welsh churches that were founded in America for example. They once all spoke Welsh and displayed Welsh flags. Now they Speak English and removed the flag. There are Many examples where the connections to Wales were removed. Pennsylvania being another one, it was originally New Wales but was changed because they want to overstate England connections and understate Wales connection to the US. The Name of America itself comes from Richard A(p) Meryck (A)...the business man who was the main player behind the funding for the early colonies. Which makes considerably more sense than Amerigo Vespucci. Seeing how He did it under Queen Elizabeth who used old Welsh legends to justify the "English" Colonies to The Pope. By all metrics, you could argue those colonies were Welsh. The inhabitants may not have been, but the powers behind them certainly were. Elizabeth the 1st, John Dee, Richard Ap Meryck.

@@taffyducks544 Hmmm I wonder why. My maternal 8th great grandfather is speculative. Reason being is that the majority seem to think that he is Captain (sea) Thomas Holladay, and Alvis Milton Holladay the NASA scientist and professor (and amateur genealogist) argues that it's Thomas of Chalford Holladay who was the president of the East India company. If Alvis is wrong and the majority are right my 11th great grandfather is Sir Leonard Holladay the High Sheriff of London and Lord Mayor of London at the same time, during the Guy Fawkes plot AND a founder of the East India company and the chairman. He had the lions share of the investment and profit of the very first voyage of the companies very first ship. His son John became Lord Mayor of London after his death. My possible 10th great grandfather. Any way Sir Leonards wifes parents were of Welsh descent and his mothers paternal grandmothers people were of Welsh descent. If these are my direct lineage relatives then I can follow a long line of Welsh lords and ladies all the way back to Welsh kings and queens. I'm just wondering why any one would be ashamed of Welsh lineage when important British lords were part Welsh.

I wonder how it is that the name of Oliver has been kept so quiet being as there was many key moments such as: Second Dean of King Henry VI's Kings College also known as Oxford University Christs College Or Andrew & Thomas Oliver One brother being the last Lt. Governor of Boston Massachusetts for King George III during the Revolutionary War. Chased out of the Oliver House in Boston (yellow) Jacob Oliver as a true descendant of Cardiganshire Wales by many many generations evan as 1000 years My blood is as a true Prince of Wales even unto the Paladin Knights of Charlesmagne. Oliver Castle in Neidpath destroyed Roxsbourgshire "We Gain by Treaty" Even unto the Scottish Highland Clan of Fraser as such held baron status. Sir Simon Fraser of Oliver a relative of the Countess of Buchan King Malcolm III with Saint Margaret

@@jacobj.oliver7583 and let's not forget Oliver Tobias, Oliver McCall, Oliver Postgate, Oliver Hardy, Oliver Newton-John & of course my cat Big Olly 😊👍

Owain Gylndwr is my 20th Great Grandfather. I have paper trail to prove it. I and 3 of my siblings had our dna tested. My sister Tina has 2% Welsh dna. The rest of us have none. Owain Glydwr is our only Welsh line.

Strata Florida Abbey was the capital in 1400. Here's a great article talking about the history of the Welsh capital(s): www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/what-capital-wales-before-cardiff-22238129

Keborr, a major region inwhich Cardiff became a part of during the Roman period. Caerdydd gets its name from a peace treaty between the Britons and Romans.

Machynlleth, where Owain Glyndwr had his parliament in 1404.

Noted!

Thanks Cheryl Welsh is beautifully

@ Cheryl West. Welsh independence sounds great, but tourism is not a good basis for an economy and we have little enough industry these days.

@@davewilliams6172 that's very true I agree

Indeed. Thats all they have to do also. They don't need to seek the same as Scotland as They were forced into a union against their will with no legal standing. Unlike Scotland who legally joined England. Majority of Welsh are taught their history from an English perspective, which explains why they know little of their country and why they don't do such a thing.

@@taffyducks544 and what might I ask would an independent Wales base it's economy on...sheep and tourists aint gonna cut it!

​​@@davewilliams6172 wales exports Aerospace systems, business and financial services, cereals, chemical products, dairy products, electricity, electronics, iron and steel, machinery, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, plastics, renewable energy, road vehicles, textiles, timber, water, lamb , tourists , in 2019 Wales was the world's 5th largest exporter of electricity (22.7 TWh), mainly to Ireland and England, welsh gold is the rarest in the world worth 30x more than any other gold in the world , Wales would be fine as an independent country just like every other nation in europe , wales is roughly the same size as belgium , Netherlands , Denmark, ect we have a population of 3.1m that's bigger than iceland 372k , Luxembourg 640k ,Jamaica 2.8m and not far of irelands 4.9m ect and their all independent , the argument the wales woulnt survive independence is ridiculous it's been debunked numerous times.

​​​@@davewilliams6172 dont forget all the wlesh inventions 1557 - The equals sign Robert Recorde (1512-1558) led a busy, learned life. Born in Tenby, he attended Oxford and Cambridge universities, and became both physician to Edward VI and controller of the Royal Mint. His chief contribution to mathematics, however, was inventing the equals sign (=), which he used in his 1557 book The Whetstone of Witte: ‘to avoid the tedious repetition of these words - is equal to - I will set a pair of parallels lines of one length, because no two things can be more equal.’ 1706 - Pi The Anglesey-born mathematician William Jones (1675-1749) didn’t invent pi, the numerical value of the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, but he was the first to use the, now universally-recognised, Greek symbol ‘π’ to represent it (most likely because it is the first letter of the Greek word περίμετρος - 'perimeter'). 1794 - Ball bearings The Carmarthen-based inventor and ironmaster Philip Vaughan patented the first design for a ball bearing in 1794. His design placed iron balls between the wheel and the axle of a carriage, allowing the carriage wheels to rotate freely by reducing friction. His 18th-century design is fundamentally unchanged in all rotating machines and vehicles today. 1836 - Iron smelting The ‘hot blast’ process - pre-heating the air before it’s pumped into a blast furnace - revolutionised iron-making. It was discovered independently by several ironworkers, including David Thomas (1794- 1882) at Ystradgynlais, Powys. Thomas took his process to Pennsylvania, where he played an important role in US industry, and became the first president of the American Society of Metallurgy. 1842 - The fuel cell In the future, everyone may drive cars powered by hydrogen fuel cells - thanks to Sir William Grove (1811-1896). The Swansea-born lawyer-turned-scientist invented the fuel cell in 1842, which combined hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity. As a lecturer at the London Institution, Grove also demonstrated how electric current could be used to create light, a concept that would be perfected by Thomas Edison with his light bulb three decades later. 1861 - Mail-order shopping When the small community of Newtown in mid-Wales was connected to the UK railway network in the mid-19th century, one local draper, Sir Pryce Jones (1834-1920), saw an opportunity to expand his customer base. By using trains to deliver his products, Jones pioneered the world’s first major mail-order business, eventually supplying garments to customers as far afield as America and Australia, as well as to a number of famous clients, including Florence Nightingale and Queen Victoria. 1896 - Public health and politics Born in Llandudno, Dr Martha Hughes Cannon (1857-1932) emigrated to the United States where she worked as a physician, suffragist and public health reformer. In 1896 she became the first female US state senator - running against, and defeating, her own husband. She proposed several legislative bills that revolutionized public health in Utah, where the present Department of Health building, in Salt Lake City, is named in her honour. 1904 - The spare wheel Morris and Walter Davies opened an ironmongery shop in Llanelli’s Stepney Street in 1895. Early motor cars carried no spare tyres, so Morris Davies invented a spokeless wheel rim fitted with an inflatable tyre. By 1909 all London taxis carried the device, and their invention spread throughout the world. Even today, a spare wheel is commonly called a ‘stepney’ in many countries. 1935 - Radar The son of a Swansea steelworker, Edward ‘Taffy’ Bowen (1911-1991) was a key figure in the development of radar. Bowen was a member of the team tasked with creating a radar system that could be installed onto aircrafts, allowing the crew to detect not only other planes but also hard-to-find targets like submarines for the first time - an innovation that greatly aided the allies during WWII. After the war, he became a pioneer of radio astronomy.