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  2. National symbols of Wales - Wikipedia

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    Cymru am byth" ("Wales forever") is a popular Welsh motto. [26] " Pleidiol Wyf i'm Gwlad" ("I am true to my country"), taken from the National Anthem of Wales, appears on the 2008 Royal Badge of Wales, [27] [28] the Welsh Seal [29] used during the reign of Elizabeth II and on the edge of £1 coins that depict Welsh symbols. [30]

  3. Flag of Wales - Wikipedia

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    In 1932, the 'Welsh Nationalist Party' (who would later be rebranded as Plaid Cymru) appealed to the Office of Works to replace the Union flag with that of the Welsh flag on Caernarfon castle's Eagle tower on St David's Day. The office ignored them; as a consequence, on March 1, a group of Welsh patriots climbed the towers and hauled the Union ...

  4. List of Welsh flags - Wikipedia

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    Flag Date Use Description Since 1837: The Royal Standard, used by King Charles III in England, Wales and Northern Ireland: A banner of the King's Arms, the Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom, blazoned Quarterly, I and IV Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or; II Or a lion rampant within a double tressure flory-counter-flory Gules; III Azure a harp Or stringed Argent

  5. Welsh Dragon - Wikipedia

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    The Welsh Dragon (Y Ddraig Goch) The Welsh Dragon (Welsh: y Ddraig Goch, meaning 'the red dragon'; pronounced [ə ˈðraiɡ ˈɡoːχ]) is a heraldic symbol that represents Wales and appears on the national flag of Wales. Ancient leaders of the Celtic Britons that are personified as dragons include Maelgwn Gwynedd, Mynyddog Mwynfawr and Urien ...

  6. Prince of Wales's feathers - Wikipedia

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    There have been multiple calls for the WRU to use a logo "more relevant to Wales" as the feathers are seen by some as a British rather than a Welsh symbol, heavily associated with the British monarchy. In 2021, the pro-independence group YesCymru created a number of mock-up logos using the alternative Welsh symbols of a leek, daffodil and a harp.

  7. Category:National symbols of Wales - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "National symbols of Wales" ... Welsh Memorial Park, Ypres This page was last edited on 4 March 2024, at 21:30 (UTC). Text ...

  8. Welsh heraldry - Wikipedia

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    The two principal Welsh kingdoms were those of Gwynedd, in the north, and Deheubarth in the south. Of these, the most successful, and the last, finally, to fall, was that of Gwynedd, and the arms now borne by the Princes of Wales as an escutcheon are the historic arms of the dynasty of Gwynedd as borne by the last native Princes of Wales ...

  9. Royal Badge of Wales - Wikipedia

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    The Royal Badge of Wales was approved in May 2008. It is based on the arms borne by the 13th-century Welsh prince Llywelyn ab Iorwerth (blazoned quarterly Or and gules, four lions passant guardant counterchanged), with the addition of St Edward's Crown atop a continuous scroll which, together with a wreath consisting of the plant emblems of the four countries of the United Kingdom, surrounds ...