#holyhead

Prince William during his visit to RAF Valley on 28 April 2026 in Holyhead, Wales.

He visited the airbase in his role as Royal Honorary Air Commodore to mark the airbase's 85th anniversary.

He was stationed at the base between 2012 and 2013 during his time serving as an RAF Search and Rescue pilot.

Trefignath Chambered Tomb is a Neolithic burial monument raised more than five thousand years ago on a low rise of the Anglesey landscape. Its tall, weathered slabs are the remains of a once-covered stone chamber where the dead of an early farming community were laid to rest beneath a cairn of earth and rock.

Cyhoeddodd Siôr IV ei fwriad o fynd i Iwerddon fis wedi’i goroni a ddigwyddodd yn Abaty San Steffan 19 Gorffennaf 1821. Cododd storm ar ei daith, felly ymwelodd â Chaergybi ar 7fed Awst 1821 a thra'n angori clywodd am farwolaeth ei wraig, Caroline o Frunswick. Nid oedd y ddau yn ffrindiau a mawr fu'r llawenhau ar fwrdd y llong y noson honno. Cyrhaeddodd Iwerddon 12fed Awst, ymweliad cyntaf brenin Lloegr i’r ynys werdd ers y 12fed ganrif.

I goffau'r ymweliad codwyd Bwa Sior IV sydd i'w weld o hyd yn yr harbwr. Gelwir y bwa hefyd yn Fwa’r Buddugoliaeth neu Admiralty Arch ac fe’i hadeiladwyd â marmor o Fae Traeth Coch, Ynys Môn. Fe’i hariannwyd trwy danysgrifiad cyhoeddus ac mae’n nodi terfyn gogleddol ffordd yr A5, a gafodd ei gwella’n fawr gan Thomas Telford. Cwblhawyd rhan fwyaf gogleddol o’r ffordd, i mewn i Gaergybi, ym 1823. Gellir ystyried bod y bwa yn ategu Marble Arch Llundain, a adeiladwyd ym 1828 ac a symudwyd i’w leoliad presennol ym mhen deheuol yr A5 yn y 1850au. Addas iawn gan fod yr A5 bellach yn cychwyn wrth y bwa yn Llundain ac yn cyrraedd pen ei thaith wrth y bwa yng Nghaergybi.

Mae porthladd Caergybi yn taflu ei gysgod dros y cylch, ac wedi gwneud hynny am ganrifoedd. Fel Tywysog Cymru, agorodd Edward VII y harbwr newydd yng Nghaergybi ym 1873, ac eto ym 1880 pan gwblhawyd estyniad i’r harbwr. Er nad oes cofnodion penodol o ymweliadau Edward VII ag harbyrau eraill yn Sir Fôn, mae ei ymweliadau â Chaergybi yn dangos ei gefnogaeth i ddatblygiad o’r fath yng Nghymru.

Working on this all day and still need to add color. Created by me in Procreate. Headcanon below.

This is the original photo spread before Harry had it changed.

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Headcanon: Ginny was given a full spread in Seeker Weekly after she started playing for the Holyhead Harpies as their new Chaser. She knew the photographer was at practice to capture some candid photos but she didn’t know images of her in her sports bra would end up published. When she asked for a magical retraction of the photos, she was told “Sorry sweetheart, sex sells.” She knew she couldn’t avoid Harry seeing the article. Not only had he been reading the publication cover to cover every week for years, he knew about the write up and the photo spread and was so excited for her. He’d planned to frame it. Now she couldn’t stand the idea of looking at herself every day, stretching her arms or caught in an awkward stance in her sports bra everyday, hung up on the wall behind glass. Her brothers would see it too! The humiliation. Why couldn’t they have just taken photos of her in her kit, completely covered in her new dragon hide gear? Ginny had felt so cool and grown up at her fitting. A professional Quidditch player! Not that her brothers cared. They weren’t huge Holyhead fans and Ron told her “Well, of course you’d make the all-girls team.” They were keen on getting tickets when she played their favorite teams though. Wankers.

Ginny met Harry for lunch as a planned celebration. He already had a copy of the magazine tucked under his arm. “Harry, please know it wasn’t on purpose. I didn’t know…” “It’s already been taken care of.” He interrupted her. “What? But I already contacted them and-“ “I pulled some strings and asked some favors. Unfortunately they won’t retract the current issues in rotation but they’re doing a re-print to replace them all. They are being pulled from the shelves as we speak.” Ginny was speechless. This must be a “Boy Who Lived” favor. Who knows how many more of those he would get away with. He’d used one…on her. For something he knew she would feel uncomfortable about. Unless it made him uncomfortable too?