{"id":6682,"date":"2019-02-28T12:53:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T12:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utalk.com\/news\/?p=6682"},"modified":"2026-08-25T13:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T12:15:07","slug":"when-royal-dads-get-present-buying-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/en\/news\/when-royal-dads-get-present-buying-wrong","title":{"rendered":"When Royal Dads Get Present-Buying Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/GettyImages-74951569.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/GettyImages-74951569.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/GettyImages-74951569-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/GettyImages-74951569-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/GettyImages-74951569-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/GettyImages-74951569-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/GettyImages-74951569-120x90.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">History doesn\u2019t record the reaction of Henry VIII\u2019s daughter, Mary, when her dad presented her with a gift on March 1 in 1536.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, given it was a leek, we can imagine her gratitude was a little forced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was a good reason, though, as a leek is the national symbol of Wales and 1st March marks St David\u2019s Day, the feast day of the patron of Wales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And King Henry VIII\u200a\u2014\u200athe one with the six wives\u200a\u2014\u200awas from the Welsh Tudor dynasty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Historically, the Welsh also wore a leek in their caps every St David\u2019s Day but, in modern times, the daffodil is commonly worn instead as a symbol of Welsh identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"9049\"><strong>Did you&nbsp;know?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Welsh the word for a leek is&nbsp;<em>cenhinen&nbsp;<\/em>and a daffodil is&nbsp;<em>cenhinen pedr&nbsp;<\/em>(meaning Peter\u2019s leek). Experts speculate that the daffodil may have been adopted as an alternative Welsh symbol in the late 19th century because of a spelling mix-up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/utalk.com\/store\/?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_content=stdavids2019\" target=\"_blank\">Discover Welsh and 150+ other languages on the uTalk app!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History doesn\u2019t record the reaction of Henry VIII\u2019s daughter, Mary, when her dad presented her with a gift on March&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1305],"tags":[1657,266],"class_list":["post-6682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-welsh","tag-royal-family","tag-welsh"],"acf":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":6682},"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1305,"label":"Welsh"}],"post_tag":[{"value":1657,"label":"Royal Family"},{"value":266,"label":"Welsh"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Richard Howeson","author_link":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/en\/news\/author\/richard"},"comment_info":1,"category_info":[{"term_id":1305,"name":"Welsh","slug":"welsh","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1305,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":9,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1305,"category_count":9,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Welsh","category_nicename":"welsh","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":1657,"name":"Royal Family","slug":"royal-family","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1657,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":266,"name":"Welsh","slug":"welsh","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":266,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":7,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8863,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6682\/revisions\/8863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}