Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1910 — PLEASES PEOPLE OF WALES [ARTICLE]

PLEASES PEOPLE OF WALES

Investiture of Heir to British Throne With Title of Prince of That Country Is Politic. Though the* investiture of the new Prince of Wales carries with it no actual power over the people in his nominal domains, It conveys some valuable perquisites and titles not to be disdained ever by royalty. The earldom of Chester goes with the principality and is in a sense considered part of It. By a statute of the Order of the Garter in 1805 the Prince of Wales becomes a knight of the order as soon as he receives his title. There was an anhuity of 40,000 pounds settled on the prince in the course of Queen Victoria’s reign, also he gets the revenues of the duchy of Cornwall, which sometimes amount to 100,000 pounds a year. The Princess of Wales receives an annuity of 10,000 pounds, which becomes 30,000 in the event of her widowhood. Both the Prince and Princess of Wales have separate households, and George m even made general rules for their regulation in a vain attempt to keep the heir to t]ie throne out of debt. The title ,of Prince of Wales is not hereditary. It must be re-created each time a new candidate appears. Usually it Is bestowed by patent and Investiture, though In a few instances the monarch’s eldest son has become prince simply by virtue of a declaration. The latter condition exists at present and will exist until next July. Though, as suggested, the ceremony conveys to the Prince of Wales no actual power, it is calculated to have a powerful sentimental effect on the Welsh people, an effect that ought to be heightened by the fact that in the present - instance the pageant takes place, for the first time in centuries, on Welsh soil—that is, in Carnarvon, the birthplace of the first Prince of Wales, afterward Edward II of England. The traditionally independent spirit of the Welsh people for several centuries has ceased to exhibit itself In militant rebellion, but of late it has manifested itself in a big effort to revive the Welsh language and literature. It Is said that there are a half-million of people inside the principality who never speak English. Under such conditions, it is easy to see how a formal, even if somewhat medieval, acknowledgement of the separateness of the principality may appeal to the people at large and mightily tickle them.