Welsh Seal

Charles III Heir Apparent William, Prince of Wales First Minister (list) Rt Hon Eluned Morgan MS (L) Deputy First Minister Huw Irranca-Davies MS (L) Counsel General-designate – Elisabeth Jones Chief Whip and Trefnydd – Jane Hutt MS (L) Permanent Secretary Sixth Senedd Llywydd (Presiding Officer) Elin Jones MS (PC) Leader of the Opposition Darren Millar MS (C) Shadow Cabinet Prime Minister Rt Hon Keir Starmer MP (L) Secretary of State for Wales Rt Hon Jo Stevens MP (L) Principal councils (leader list) Corporate Joint Committees Local twinning see also: Regional terms and Regional economy United Kingdom Parliament elections European Parliament elections (1979–2020) Local elections Police and crime commissioner elections Referendums The Welsh Seal (Welsh: Y Sêl Gymreig) is a seal used by the First Minister of Wales to seal letters patent signed by the monarch giving royal assent to bills passed by the Senedd (Welsh Parliament; Welsh: Senedd Cymru).

This seal was conceived in England under the reign of Edward the Confessor, allowing an appointed officer to authorise official documents with an impression in wax rather than requiring the signature of the monarch.

[5] Queen Elizabeth II formally delivered the seal into the custody of the First Minister at a meeting of the Privy Council at Buckingham Palace, London, on 14 December 2011.

In 2009, facsimile copies of the seal were created by the National Library of Wales and presented by the then heritage minister, Alun Ffred Jones, to six Welsh institutions.

[17][18] In 1999 an early day motion was put forward for the return of Glyndŵr seals to Wales, but failed to reach sufficient support to be debated in parliament.

The Welsh Seal during the reign of Elizabeth II. The seal includes a dragon and the arms of Llywelyn the Last native Prince of Wales .
Seal of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth (d. 1240).
Seal (right) and Privy Seal (left) of Owain Glyndŵr as Prince of Wales . The privy seal includes his arms , a crown, flowers with five petals and, as supporters, a lion (possibly crowned) sejeant erect guardant to the dexter and a wyvern-type dragon (ddraig) sejeant erect to the sinister.