Wales wins the World Cup of Flags 2022! The Red Dragon crushed mighty Brazil, grabbing 93.5 per cent of the votes. ‘Wales wins. We salute you,’ tweeted exhausted competition host Bernard Muscat. ‘Long may your glorious flag fly free across valleys and over mountain tops.’ 1000s of votes were cast in the month-long Twitter poll, […]
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Flag of Wales: a blood-red dragon on a field of green
Y Ddraig Goch (The Red Dragon) became the official flag of Wales in 1959, although a dragon has represented the Principality since 830. We can date the symbol of the Red Dragon to the Roman occupation of Britain, or to Arthurian Legend. Merlin prophesied a battle between a red dragon (the Britons) and a white […]
Wales: no change to Union Flag
Interviewed this morning by BBC Wales, Welshman and Flag Institute Chief Executive Charles Ashburner suggested that moves to change the flag of the United Kingdom to include Wales are ‘unlikely to be successful for the foreseeable future’. Such a change might have been hard to resist had Scotland voted for independence. However, the national mood […]
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