A postbox which was decorated in celebration of King Charles III's coronation but was immediately vandalised and egged has now been painted red again. The Royal Mail box in Cardiff city centre outside the Owain Glyndwr pub was one of four across the UK to be designed to commemorate the occasion last week.
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. On Thursday, the box became the first in the UK to return to its original design. 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.
