'I find it offensive, weird, pointless': The Welsh who want to end the Prince of Wales title 🏴 For many nationalists and republicans in Wales, the ‘humiliating’ announcement has provoked anger and frustration
investiture will be a more low-key ceremony. However, there have already been eyebrows raised in Wales at the fact that the First Minister Mark Drakeford says he was not told there would be a new Prince of Wales before the public announcement.Drakeford has since said that there’s no rush to investiture, so that “a debate” can be had. Asked whether he thought the Royal Family were sensitive to the strength of feeling about the role of the Prince of Wales, he said: “I think they are.
“The use of the title is an insult to modern Wales and its people, and the fact that the elected First Minister of the country was informed at the same time that the general public found out suggests that Wales is unimportant and that our voice isn’t to be listened to,” he says. Owen Williams, a 44-year-old managing director of a social media agency from Barry, who signed the petition, tells i that it’s “a slap in the chops to have an English family hold that title”.
“The misperception that Wales is a principality is going to stick around for as long as there’s a Prince of Wales. The land of my fathers deserves better than that; it deserves to stand proudly in its own right, like Scotland.”, who was born in Newport, articulated his feeling perfectly when he decided to hand back his OBE in 2017, eight years after he’d received it. Sheen, who played Tony Blair in the 2006 film, wrote a letter to King Charles explaining why his feelings had changed.
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