Gwenllian was the daughter and only child of Llewellyn the Great, the last Prince of Wales.  When Wales was conquered by Edward I of England, she was taken by the English (as an infant) and placed in a nunnery away from her home country.  Raised in seclusion in a Gilbertine priory at Sempringham in Lincolnshire, she never saw her home country.  Her mother died in childbirth, her father was murdered in an English ambush soon after, and her uncle publicly tortured and killed.    

 

This box is a tribute to a loneliness she may never have fully understood as both a survivor and as someone deprived from knowing her full heritage.  The water reflections in the box suggest the Welsh shore where she was born, but never saw.