Now, it is felt by many that the title undermines the country’s status, because the Government of Wales Act 1998 and the creation of the Senedd (Welsh Parliament) has helped Wales to have significant political autonomy. However, many feel that by the time Charles was invested as Prince of Wales in 1969, the title was long past its sell-by date. The investiture of Edward in 1911 at Caernarfon Castle was seen as recognition that Wales was an equal partner in the UK, and the investiture and its celebration of all things Welsh was a way of demonstrating that. The most recent person to hold the Prince of Wales title before King Charles was Prince Edward, who would go on to be King Edward VIII before his abdication in 1936. You’d have thought in these modern, more equitable, inclusive times that there is no need for such chest-beating and gloating over a subjugated people.” Prince Charles kneels before Queen Elizabeth as she crowns him Prince of Wales at the Investiture at Caernarvon Castle on Jin Wales (Photo: Anwar Hussein/Getty) However, the English establishment, often with the aid of Welsh sycophants, insists on revisiting this ancient scab by reminding us Welsh of our subjugation by the foisting of a new Prince of Wales on us when an English monarch dies. “I’d be quite willing to forget as it’s been a long time. Every Prince of Wales since then has been a confirmation of that insult. “This was the final humiliation in the conquering of the Welsh nation.

“Edward I placed the Welsh Prince’s severed head on a pike staff and displayed it outside the Tower of London and then declared his own son to be the new Prince of Wales,” he tells i. Ifan Huw Dafydd, a 68-year-old actor living in the village of Miskin in Pontyclun, feels strongly that the title should cease to exist.

However, the last Welsh Prince of Wales, Dafydd ap Gruffydd, was brutally killed on the orders of Edward I of England in 1283. “Tywysog Cymru”, or prince of Wales, is a historic title that was originally held by pre-12th century native Welsh kings and princes who, largely, ruled from Gwynedd in north-west Wales. Giving the heir to the English throne the highest title that Wales has to offer has long been controversial. At the time of writing, 32,529 people have signed a petition calling for the end of the title. When King Charles III named Prince William as Prince of Wales on 9 September, the day after the Queen’s death, he announced: “Today, I am proud to create him Prince of Wales, Tywysog Cymru, the country whose title I have been so greatly privileged to bear during so much of my life and duty.” Yet, for many nationalists and republicans in Wales, the announcement of a new Prince of Wales has provoked anger.

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