The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-12
PRINCE
WILL Be INVESTED
Eldest Son of King George
Will Become Prince of
Wales on Thursday.
fNationaI News AsSoci tiono


London. July 12-Rivaling the coro-
nation itself in solemn splendor will
be the ceremony tomorrow attending
the investiture of the Prince of Wales,
The ceremony will take place at Car
narvon Castle. where the first Prince
of Wales was born more than six CEN
turtles ago.
The King and Queen who leave
Dublin today will land at Holyhead to-
morrow morning and proceed thence
by train to a small station a few miles
from Carnarvon, The journey to the
castle will be made under military es-
cort and the arrival and welcome of
casion for quaint and picturesque cere-
monies.
The investiture is to take place in
the early afternoon. The King will per
form the ceremony. and a religious
service will be conducted by the Bish-
op of Bangor and by a representative
minister of the nonconformits chur-
ches.
Within the castle two main process
sions will be formed, the procession of
his royal highness the Prince of Wales
proceeding first, followed by that of
their Majesties the King and Queen.
The Prince, Immediately after being
invested will proceed to the celebrated
Queen Eleanor's Gateway at the south
ern extremity of the castle, command
ing a view of the great castle square
and tho Tot uhirh uril1 hn
cleared for the accommodation of the
public. There, on platform. the
Prince will present himself to the
view of his Welsh subjects.
The Prince will wear a specially de-
signed robe of gold cloth, modelled
after one worn by Charles l., and be-
meath will retain his simple cadet
dress, which is, after all, the highest
uniform he can wear.
The title of Prince of Wales comes
to the heir to the throne as an act of
grace on the part of his father. The
monarch is under no obligation to be-
stow the dignity of Prince of Wales
upon his first born. Edward VII, for
instance, did not confer the title of
Prince of Wales upon his son until the
latter had completed his tour of the
colonies, that is to say, considerably
more than a year after the demise of
Queen Victoria.
Edward l. was the. first king of Eng
land to create his eldest son Prince of
Wales, with the object of reconciling
the Welsh chieftains to English do
mination. after the death of Llewellyn,
the last native ruler of Wales. But it
was not until the reign of Edward Ill,
that the latter raised the earldom of
Cornwall to dukedom, and bestowed
it upon his son, Edward the Black
| Prince, with the provision that it
should always be held by the heir ap-
parent who was the son of the souver-
eign
Hence it will be seen that, contrary
to the popular impression, the dignity
of Prince of Wales, as borne by the
British heir apparent, is older than
that of the Duke of Cornwall The dig
nifty of Prince of Wales carries with it
no revenue, nor even prerogatives,
and it's holder sits in the House of
Lords, and is enabled to take part in
its deliberations, not as Prince of
Wales, but as Duke of Cornwall
Prince Edward, who will be the cen
trail figure in tomorrow's elaborate Ger
emory, is typical Anglo-Saxon lad.
He was born June %, 1894, and enter
ed the Royal Naval College at the age
of thirteen. With his brothers and sis
tiers he has been brought I'M as much
like other English children as posi-
BILE. They have been subjected to gen.
tie but firm discipline and trained in
habits of industry and self-reliance.