A pretty town in Wales that staged a lavish ceremony for then Prince Charles on Canada Day in 1969 is now preparing to all but ignore the King's coronation. Read correspondent Genevieve Beauchemin's story explaining why on CTVNews.ca.
Days before the moon landing more than half a century ago, 500 million people worldwide tuned in to watch the televised investiture of Charles as the Prince of Wales at the mighty Caernarfon Castle.
Elizabeth II places the gold coronet onto the head of her son, Charles, Prince of Wales, who wears a ceremonial robe trimmed with ermine, during the Prince of Wales investiture ceremony at Caernarfon Castle in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales, July 1, 1969. The ceremony is conducted on a circular dais made of Welsh slate.
Instead, there is a march scheduled to protest against the high cost of housing. The timing is no coincidence."The public money spent on this coronation is going to be sickening,” said Alun Wyn Jones, the town clerk who says he is a lifelong republican."The man is a billionaire twice over and he is spending money, at a time when there is huge deprivation within society, on a festival of him. It is very strange.
"It is a colonialist symbol," said Jones, who is also a historian."It is a fantastic tourist attraction, there is no doubt about that. But the history of it has to be thought about in the right context."Before he became King, Charles was the longest serving Prince of Wales. And by all accounts, it is a title he will miss.
"How can you bring an English person into a Welsh country and say he is a Welsh prince? He is not," said an older man standing on a cobblestone street in the shadow of the castle.And the mayor, Sarnacki, who was once a young girl awed by the rituals of the monarchy in her town, said the title should be abolished. And if it isn't, she said there certainly should not be another investiture ceremony in Caernarfon for William, the new Prince of Wales.
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