🏴 Wales is now the republican heartland of the UK, overtaking Scotland, recent polling shows “I think people are starting to realise that it’s an establishment – a hierarchy – that we here in Wales don’t belong to”, one Welsh republican tells poppyeh
, a staunch republican, there’s still a lot of reckoning with the monarchy to be getting on with in the meantime. Mr Drakeford said in the week following the Queen’s death that there was an “alive” debate in Wales about the future of the Prince of Wales title.in Wales are understood to be on ice., the Welsh Secretary, who agreed to an interview about Welsh republicanism withbefore cancelling it on the day because “ministers aren’t allowed to talk about the Royal Family”.
Speaking from his office in Whitehall, where a metal sculpture of a dragon graces the room’s large marble mantelpiece, he hinted at his views on the monarchy nonetheless: that “there is no debate about the Prince of Wales”. As Welsh republicans will be the first to point out, Mr Davies, who was born in London but grew up in Newport, still represents the prevailing pro-monarchy sentiment in Wales.
“I think we still have a huge problem with monarchists in Wales,” says Mr Dafydd, who estimates the Welsh republican movement to count around 20,000 members in a population of more than 3.1 million. “I think the loudness this weekend will be coming from the royalists, but we’ll try to be louder,” he says.
In any case, Welsh republicans have some rather major details they need to iron out. Ms Dafydd, who has been “quite disappointed” by the damp ignition that republicanism has had in the wake of the Queen’s death, suggests it needs a PR overhaul. “We need to be getting people to question the Royal Family’s wealth on a daily basis on social media, something likeAnd although united by the desire to get rid of the monarchy, Welsh republicans are still not quite sure what they want to replace it with.
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