THE WELSH CONNECTION

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Wales, population 3 million, adjoining England and facing Ireland, is twinned with Lesotho, the first such national twinning. The small town of books Hay-on-Wye is twinned with Timbuktu in Mali. The Welsh, the ancient “Britons” before the Anglo-Saxon (i.e English) invasion, came from the Iberian peninsula. Welsh resistance to the combined might of the Anglo-Saxons and Normans was finally overcome in 1282 and the head of the last true Prince of Wales Llywelyn ap Gruffudd paraded through the streets of London. The...