The True Welsh Government, as they call themselves, claim to have been a government in exile since 1412, the year that Owain Glyndwr and his forces finally succumbed to the tactics of the English King Henry IV. Owain and trusted confidants withdrew to Brittany to await their chance to regain their Welsh nation. They appear in the historical records throughout the centuries, but only rarely and have had no influence on the outside world. They currently enact a Welsh parliament and send their decisions and recommendations to Cardiff and Westminster, which are dutifully ignored.

The first stamps were issued in 1887 and feature Glyndwr or Sir John Wynn ap Morys of Gwydir. In 1900 new stamps were issued showing just Glyndwr, These were green or less commonly brown. The marked the 500th anniversary of the Welsh Uprising, but modestly do not reflect this in their design. The 1926 stamp shows John Lewis an American sympathiser to their cause. The most recent stamps feature a variation on the arms of Glyndwr in the red and green of Wales, or yellow and black of St David.

There is a school of thought that this is an elaborate hoax, for purposes as yet unknown. That the historical documents mentioning them are fakes inserted into the archives. Watch this space!