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June 29th, 2008 | Tags: carl ryan, extreme sports | Category: Photofeatures | | Leave a comment

Half Century Prince

Will Wills be attending this banquet as Prince of Wales ‘in waiting’?
Source:BBC NEWS | Wales | South West Wales | Royal couple move into Welsh home

Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall are staying for the first time in their west Wales retreat during their summer tour of the country.

On Thursday First Minister Rhodri Morgan will host a celebration dinner at Caerphilly Castle to mark the 50th anniversary of the Queen bestowing her son with the title of Prince of Wales.

June 23rd, 2008 | Tags: prince of Wales, prince william, royal | Category: News | | Comments (3)

No to Investiture - more petition responses

More petition responses and comments. Gathering pace.

What expense does this farce cost the Welsh people?
Jeff Thomas

Wales is its own country and has all the necessary functions and institutions for a nation-state. The people are perfectly capable of self-rule. Any attempt to install a “prince of Wales” is an insult beyond expression.
Theresa Clark

I wish to express my view, which I know is shared by so many of the people of Wales, that any attempt to force another investiture of a so-called ‘Prince of Wales’ on our nation would be yet another government led decision inflicted against our will. These decisions should never be allowed to be made from London on behalf of the Welsh people.
Karen Williams

Why on earth would any self-respecting Welsh person want or need an English “Prince of Wales”? Patronizing, insulting, and ridiculously anachronistic. Visit Wales if you wish, but please don’t make any absurd pretensions to any form of princedom. Be content to be a prince in your own country. Wales is a friendly neighbour, but is not synonymous with England.
Rowena Harries

Any move to stage an investiture in my opinion highlights the fact that Wales is still only seen as another region of the UK rather than a thriving culturally distinct nation within the UK. It demonstrates the British establishment’s intention to keep us from being a free nation.
Evan Ifor Powell

See the petition here

June 17th, 2008 | Tags: petition, prince william | Category: Campaigns | | Comments (1)

William receives Garter honour - prequel to Investiture?

Rumours of an upcoming investiture of William as the new Prince of Wales have been flying around the blogosphere for weeks. This new honour accorded Prince William appears to add strength to this speculation. Prince Charles was made a Garter Knight just prior to his Investiture as Prince of Wales.

Knights of the Garter are chosen to honour those who have held public office, who have contributed to national life or who have served the Queen personally.

William becomes a Royal Knight Companion - and the 1,000th Knight in the Register. The position recognises his seniority within the Royal Family.

His father, the Prince of Wales, received the honour in 1958, the Princess Royal in 1994, and the Duke of York and the Earl of Wessex in 2006. The Duke of Edinburgh was created a Royal Knight in 1947 - the year he married Princess Elizabeth.

The new appointments were announced on St George’s Day, but the chivalric and installation ceremonies traditionally take place in June, on the Monday of Royal Ascot week, known as Garter Day.

As a Knight, William will wear a blue velvet cape and black velvet hat with elaborate white ostrich plumes and join the procession from the Castle’s state apartments to the church.

Source: The Press Association: William to receive Garter honour

Dig the fancy gear and bird plumes!

June 16th, 2008 | Tags: investiture, prince william | Category: News | | Leave a comment

Opposition to windfarms not yet blown over?

Windfarm developments are a controversial subject. We are all in favour of renewable energy sources but land based wind turbine farms appear to have generated more political heat than actual useful energy. The statement below comes from Professor Myron Evans an unimpeachable scientist of the highest calibre so perhaps county councils should pause to consider some of the scientific evidence before embarking on or extending windfarm developments.

“I am strongly opposed to wind turbines on scientific grounds (see numerous statements on www.aias.us and also on www.socme.org). My opinion is shared by the entire community of responsible and impartial scientists (for example the Darmstadt Accord on www.socme.org) of over one hundred senior scientists from several disciplines.The attached reports ( The wind monster , The case against windfarms ) by Dr. Etherington plainly show that wind turbines are a grotesque folly, driven onward by greed crazed profiteers and absentee landowners alike. In this area there are at least nineteen groups opposed to further wind turbine development on Mynydd y Gwair. These include the City and County Councils of Swansea, Neath Port Talbot Council, Ammanford Town Council, numerous Community Councils, numerous environment and preservation groups, and part of the Assembly Government ITSELF: CADW.

Source: Alpha Institute for Advanced Study - Press statement from the British Civil List Scientist regarding windfarms

June 10th, 2008 | Tags: wind, windfarm | Category: Campaigns | | Comments (1)

No to Investiture - petition responses

There have been some very interesting responses to the No to the investiture of a new Prince of Wales petition and also some well known political figures have signed up. We have selected some choice remarks below:

Wales, like Ireland, is an indivisibly independent and sovereign nation. It should no longer suffer the yoke of colonial and aristocratic ‘privilege’ borne out of the centuries old burden foisted upon them by the English crown. The Welsh Nation have not voted for the English ‘Prince of Wales’ to govern or hold sway over them (and vast tracts of their land). The forced installation of a quasi-head of state upon the Welsh people is unjust, undemocratic and, in the eyes of the world, unlawful. It is time to end such archaic practices and for such parasites as the English ‘Royal’ family to be stripped of their immense wealth and power. They are not Welsh and have no right to ‘govern’ an entire nation as ‘divine rulers’.
Cymru am byth! Ireland stands beside you. Tiocfaidh ar la!
Lawrence O’Keeffe
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Even a cursory knowledge of Welsh histoy would illuminate the manifest aim of subjugation and humiliation inherent in the first investiture by Edward 1st . Any thoughts of a future ‘investiture’ symbolic of otherwise would be an insult to any self-respecting Welsh person.
Dr.D.Davies
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Naw wfft i’r teulu estron hwn. Nid taeogion mohonom (er gwaethaf y cynffonwyr sydd yn mynnu taw edmygwyr teulu Brenda yw pobl Cymru – a gwelir eu dylanwad yn enwedig yn y De yma lle y mae ambell enw gwrthun ac hollol amherthnasol ar ein hysbytai - Prince Charles Hospital, Merthyrtudful; Princess of Wales Hospital, Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr; Prince Philip Hospital, Llanelli).
Ar ôl iddo chwarae sowljers bach yn Affganistan, onid yn y fan honno y dylid ei arwisgo?
Ieuan Glan Tawe

Visit the petition to see how it is progressing.

June 6th, 2008 | Tags: investiture, prince william, royalty | Category: Campaigns | | Leave a comment