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Wales, Prince of
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Wales, Prince of

Title conferred on the eldest son of the UK's sovereign. Prince Charles was invested as 21st prince of Wales at Caernarfon in 1969 by his mother, Elizabeth II.

The conferment is sometimes accompanied or followed by a ceremony of investiture at Caernarfon Castle, north Wales. Edward (afterwards King Edward II), son and heir apparent, was summoned to and sat in Parliament as Prince of Wales; his presentation at Caernarfon is legendary. The earliest documented grantee was Edward II's grandson, Edward the Black Prince, with limitation ‘to him and his heirs the kings of England’. Consequently, when a Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne, his title merges in the crown and requires a new creation for its separate existence.



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