A postbox which was vandalised and egged within hours of being repainted to commemorate the King's Coronation could now not be any more Welsh after being covered with a brilliant knitted scene. The Royal Mail box in Cardiff city centre outside the Owain Glyndwr pub was one of four across the UK to be redesigned for the Royal affair in May.
But the red, white and blue box, adorned with the coronation emblem and the union flag, was continuously vandalised with pro-republican stickers, graffiti and eggs. Welsh independence stickers, including from campaign group Yes Cymru, were plastered over the box, while other stickers reading “Ble mae’r Gymraeg?” – meaning “Where’s the Welsh?” – were from Cymdeithas Yr Iaith Gymraeg (the Welsh Language Society) which is a direct action pressure group founded in the 1960s.
