Let's see; The Britons i.e. The Welsh lost the Crown of Briton to the Angles i.e, The English, who ceded power to the Saxons i.e. more English who shared it with the Danes before losing it all to the Normans who handed it to the Angevin Plantagenets who split their house between Lancaster & York, before the Welsh took it back and re-united it, then the Scots replaced the Welsh emblem with their own before the Dutch took over and handed it to the Hanoverian Germans moving house to Saxe Coburg Gotha whose descendants are there now.
We don't need to have an inferiority complex because the English were conquered in 1066 so didn't bother Cymru until they reasserted their identity hundreds of years later, the little Principality came up against the might of the Norman Empire from Scotland to the Basque Country with perhaps a few Italians thrown in, England was a vassal State to Norman French speaking descendants of the Vikings without a word of English understood, they then came under the rule of the French Angevin Plantagenets living in Aquitaine, home of Richard the Lionheart, not London. The Empire claimed the Principality but the Marches allowed the native Lords of Glamorgan & Gwent to live autonomously untouched by the King's writ, so much so that when the Norman Lord in Cardiff tried to interfere with their Welsh laws & customs Ifor Bach & his men simply stormed the castle walls, kidnapped the Lord and his family and only released them on a promise to leave them alone; all were united under a Welsh King Henry VII when the Crown was put his head by Sir Rhys ap Thomas, he named his eldest son Arthur, once more to rule over the Britons, the Welsh were overjoyed after centuries of tumult, of revolt & repression, as a South Walian it reminds me of the dreamt of takeover of the coal mines by the Nation after the war, what a let down, here was the same, it was Henry VIII, son of a Welshman who passed the laws condemning Cymru to death, but the axeman couldn't finish his job even though he had enough help over the years. Welsh Strathclyde has gone into the hands of the Scots, Cumbria to the English, Cornwall is hanging on, Brittany doesn't have a Frontier owing to 'France' being more a borderless 'Great Britain' than a bordered 'England'. Fe Godwn ni eto. A bit of Balchder, it wasn't always the English, if we keep on blaming others we'll never get anywhere, in fact we ought to look to them as an example, in 1066 they got kicked in the teeth themselves, lost all their rights, their peasant tongue was anathematized but they managed to fight back and go on to lead the rest of the world no matter whether the world wanted them to or not, there was no right of refusal. Whilst the French went from strength to strength, ironically their main barrier to world domination was the English.
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