INVESTITURE 1969 - 50 YEARS ON 2019 CAERNARFON 1st JULY
DAFYDD IWAN SURRENDERS TO THE ENGLISH CROWN.
As a long term committed Cymric patriot,
activist and nationalist, it was most encouraging to see such a large crowd
marching for Cymric Independence in Caernarfon last Saturday and the organizers
of the march are to be commended for organizing and stewarding such a large
event so successfully so, well done AUOB/YES CYMRU.
However, what was very sad and disturbing
as far as I'm concerned was to see one of the speakers, Dafydd Iwan, stating
his love for Caernarfon castle - our Welsh Bastille. His reasoning was that he
loved the castle because it symbolized that "Edward 1's project" had failed!
Really? As far as I'm aware, we, as a nation have been under occupation for
over 700yrs! Edward 1 and his forces destroyed the Royal dynasty of Gwynedd,
murdered both Princes Llywelyn and Dafydd AP Gruffydd, imprisoned their wives
and children and left them to rot in English dungeons or nunneries, and stole
the Cymric royal treasures including the sacred Croes Naid.
He then used the sweat and blood of
Cymric prisoners of war and serfs as slaves to build Caernarfon castle as a
symbol of conquest along with a walled town which he swiftly filled with
English settlers.
Since then and over the centuries, other
brave patriot princes such as Madog ap Llywelyn and Owain
Glyndŵr have risen in challenge to that castle and English rule in Cymru and many
brave patriots have perished for their efforts, If it were not for the
sacrifices of brave warrior patriots of the past, Cymru and Cymric
speakers would not have survived to this day.
That castle is dripping in
Cymric blood and Mr Iwan knows this as well as I do but now has the audacity to
openly declare that he loves it!
Yes, Mr Iwan "we are still
here" but as a colony of England
Maybe Mr Iwan can tell us why the 1969
Investiture throne is kept in the castle along with the Investiture slate dais
which has pride of place on the castle green? Would it have anything to do with
an imminent 3rd Investiture in the castle I wonder? and when the proposed Investiture
is announced, will Mr Iwan then be delivering speeches stating that we must not
protest.
I ask the above question as It had come as
a shock to myself and many others when Mr Iwan, a patriot I had always had
great respect for, accepted an invitation to visit Charles Windsor
at his holiday home in Sir Caerfyrddin, and I, amongst others
pondered over why the invitation was extended. Mr Iwan may be well known in
Cymru but, is he that important that he gets an invitation to visit the Heir to
the English throne for a pow wow - and why now? The English State
Siân Ifan
