where is the welsh dragon on the union jack?

Answer 1

Wales was incorporated into England a long time before the creation of the Union Flag. The Law in Wales Act of 1530 began with the preamble "Wheras Wales is, and ever hath been part of England'.

The story of the Union Flag (Jack) can be found at this link.

Answer 2

Heres the proper answer but I'm sure you didnt really want that............lol

No mention has been made of the Welsh flag. The Welsh dragon was not incorporated into the Union Flag because Wales had already been united to England when the first version of the Union Flag was designed in 1606.

nenoneno - I'm afraid you are incorrect, England, Scotland & Ireland are represented in the Union Jack.

Answer 3

I am glad we aren't represented on the flag because WALES already has a flag and we don't need another one. Our one is a proud dragon which stands proud and fierce protecting it's land on the GREEN field.

The flag we have is good it describes is like dragons in sense of personality of course not looks :P. Just look at welsh women some of the hottest going. Anyway the dragoon shows us as patriotic and proud and full of fire and we are a fierce bunch who will defend out culture and language to the very end .

Now Scotland looks very likely to separate from the United Lyedom (That's what it is ) But out of the 3 nations Wales is the one in which you could very distinctly tell it's a different county with different customs and language. And the Scots decided to speak ENGLISH. I am glad we ain't on the flag because we will never be a part of the united kingdom .

Long live Wales and here separate identity and bring Independence now

Parch i'n gwlad nid oes eisiau arnom i fod ar rhyw faner celwyddog sydd yn uno brenin diroedd at eu gilydd. Rydyn yn wahanol iddyn nhw a does dim pwynt ceisio bod fel nhw. Cymru a'i hiaith i'r gad. Annibyniaeth i Gymru nawr

EIN DDRAIG GOCH LLAWN ANGERDD SYDD YN CYNNU'R TANNAU DROS EIN GWLAD. Y DDRAIG SYDD YN LLIFO YN EIN GWAED. EIN DDRAIG GOCH , Y PURDEB Y MAEN DANGOS YN WELL NA RHYW FFRADACH O GROESI TWP ANFOESOL


AND YOU DON'T THINK WELSH WASN'T BEATEN OUT OF US ? MY GRANDFATHER PAST AWAY LAST YEAR AND WAS 67 WHEN HE WAS A YOUNG BOY HE WAS CALLED A NATIONALIST BECAUSE HE SPOKE WELSH (THE SCHOOL WAS WELSH SPEAKING AND STILL IS) we just safe guarded our culture alot more fierce that's all im saying and i too have nothing against the scots.

Answer 4

There is no animal from other countries of the union so why should the Welsh Dragon be there? A Dragon is just a figment of the imagination anyway.

Answer 5

It is not, the Union Flag of the United Kingdom, incorporates St Davids Cross which was more the recognised flag of Wales at that time.

Answer 6

It's not there.

Cymro Bach, mate. Not all Scots 'decided' to speak English. It was bloody well beaten into my ancestors by their teachers and effectively eliminated in the Highlands by this method.
Half of Scotland (the southern half) had no Gaelic tradition anyway, speaking Scots rather than Gaelic or English. For those of you who think Scots is just a dodgy form of English, it isn't; it's largely made up of words with absolutely no direct correlation to anything English.

I've got no problem with the Welsh, but get your bloody facts straight before you start spouting crap.

Answer 7

Wales is not represented in the Union flag as Wales was considered to be a 'principality' and therefore not recognised as a country in its own right.

Answer 8

Wales is a principality and not not represented by the union of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland.

Answer 9

not on the union jack but on the welsh flag. the union flag has the cross of st andrew (scotland),the cross of st george (england) and the cross of st patrick (ireland), all on white background.

Answer 10

Union Flag, it is only a Jack when flown from the bow of a ship, (as in Jolly Staff, a flag pole attached to the bow of a ship)

When the flag was initially introduced, in 1606, it was known simply as "the British flag" or "the flag of Britain". By 1674, while formally referred to as "His Majesty's Jack" at sea it was commonly called the Union Jack by all other nations.

When James VI King of Scots inherited the throne of England and was crowned as King James I of England in 1603, the crowns of the Kingdom of England (which since 1535 had included Wales) and the Kingdom of Scotland were united in a personal union through him. Despite this Union of the Crowns, each kingdom remained an independent state.

On 12 April 1606, a new flag to represent a regal union between England and Scotland was specified in a royal decree, according to which the flag of England, also representing Wales by implication, (a red cross with a white background, known as St George's Cross) and the flag of Scotland (a white saltire with a blue background, known as the Saltire or Saint Andrew's Cross) would be "joyned together according to the forme made by our heralds, and sent by Us to our Admerall to be published to our Subjects."

This royal flag was at first only for use at sea on civil and military ships of both Scotland and England. In 1634, its use was restricted to the monarch's ships. Land forces continued to use their respective national banners. After the Acts of Union 1707, the flag gained a regularised status, as "the ensign armorial of the Kingdom of Great Britain", the newly created state. It was then adopted by land forces as well, although the blue field used on land-based versions more closely resembled that of the blue of the flag of Scotland.

Wales had no explicit recognition in the Union Flag because Wales, having been annexed by Edward I of England in 1282 and following the Laws in Wales Acts 1535–1542, was legally part of the Kingdom of England and was therefore represented by the flag of England. (The present-day Flag of Wales and St David's Cross emerged, or re-emerged, in the 20th century: the former based on the historical emblem of Wales, the Red Dragon, and the latter based on the arms of the Diocese of Saint David's.) The Kingdom of Ireland, which had existed as a personal union with England since 1541, was likewise unrepresented in the original versions of the Union Flag.

The current Union Flag dates from 1 January 1801 with the Act of Union 1800, which merged the Kingdom of Ireland and the Kingdom of Great Britain to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The new design added the red saltire cross of Saint Patrick's Flag for Ireland. This saltire is overlaid on the saltire of St Andrew, but still beneath the cross of St George. The Irish saltire is arranged counterchange with the saltire of St Andrew, so the white is always on the clockwise side of the red. The arrangement has introduced a requirement to display the flag "the right way up". The additional white stripe is added (as with the St George cross) to prevent "colour next to colour", a heraldic imperative.