Personal Life
Rhys was born 18 July 1970 in Haverfordwest, Wales. His father was Ioan Bowen Rees (13 January 1929 – 4 May 1999), a "poet, essayist, polemicist, mountaineer, internationalist ... and a White Robe Druid of the Gorsedd of Bards." Ioan Bowen Rees "campaigned all his life for Welsh rights, language and culture" although he did not believe in the narrow view of nationalism, glorifying one country over another, rather that the "battle for Wales is the battle for all small nations, all small communities, all individuals in the age of genocide." Rhys's mother shared his father's love of writing and was a poet. Gruff supports Bangor City F.C. of the League of Wales.
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