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More petition responses and comments. Gathering pace.
What expense does this farce cost the Welsh people?
Jeff Thomas
Wales is its own country and has all the necessary functions and institutions for a nation-state. The people are perfectly capable of self-rule. Any attempt to install a "prince of Wales" is an insult beyond expression.
Theresa Clark
I wish to express my view, which I know is shared by so many of the people of Wales, that any attempt to force another investiture of a so-called 'Prince of Wales' on our nation would be yet another government led decision inflicted against our will. These decisions should never be allowed to be made from London on behalf of the Welsh people.
Karen Williams
Why on earth would any self-respecting Welsh person want or need an English "Prince of Wales"? Patronizing, insulting, and ridiculously anachronistic. Visit Wales if you wish, but please don't make any absurd pretensions to any form of princedom. Be content to be a prince in your own country. Wales is a friendly neighbour, but is not synonymous with England.
Rowena Harries
Any move to stage an investiture in my opinion highlights the fact that Wales is still only seen as another region of the UK rather than a thriving culturally distinct nation within the UK. It demonstrates the British establishment's intention to keep us from being a free nation.
Evan Ifor Powell
Rumours of an upcoming investiture of William as the new Prince of Wales have been flying around the blogosphere for weeks. This new honour accorded Prince William appears to add strength to this speculation. Prince Charles was made a Garter Knight just prior to his Investiture as Prince of Wales.
Knights of the Garter are chosen to honour those who have held public office, who have contributed to national life or who have served the Queen personally.Dig the fancy gear and bird plumes!
William becomes a Royal Knight Companion - and the 1,000th Knight in the Register. The position recognises his seniority within the Royal Family.
His father, the Prince of Wales, received the honour in 1958, the Princess Royal in 1994, and the Duke of York and the Earl of Wessex in 2006. The Duke of Edinburgh was created a Royal Knight in 1947 - the year he married Princess Elizabeth.
The new appointments were announced on St George's Day, but the chivalric and installation ceremonies traditionally take place in June, on the Monday of Royal Ascot week, known as Garter Day.
As a Knight, William will wear a blue velvet cape and black velvet hat with elaborate white ostrich plumes and join the procession from the Castle's state apartments to the church.
"I am strongly opposed to wind turbines on scientific grounds (see numerous statements on www.aias.us and also on www.socme.org). My opinion is shared by the entire community of responsible and impartial scientists (for example the Darmstadt Accord on www.socme.org) of over one hundred senior scientists from several disciplines.The attached reports ( The wind monster , The case against windfarms ) by Dr. Etherington plainly show that wind turbines are a grotesque folly, driven onward by greed crazed profiteers and absentee landowners alike. In this area there are at least nineteen groups opposed to further wind turbine development on Mynydd y Gwair. These include the City and County Councils of Swansea, Neath Port Talbot Council, Ammanford Town Council, numerous Community Councils, numerous environment and preservation groups, and part of the Assembly Government ITSELF: CADW.
