Speaking Out
“I am the vice president of Plaid Cymru. I am a republican nationalist. You know my feelings about the office of the Prince of Wales,” says Aberystwyth University lecturer Tedi Millward in the third series of TV’s . This vehement rejection of a request to teach Welsh to the young Prince Charles ahead of his 1969 investiture as Prince of Wales reflected a real contemporary movement to protect Wales’s identity and culture – embodied in its language – which had gathered pace amid the rapid social change of the 1960s. Like many, Millward believed the Prince of Wales shouldn’t need to be taught the native language of the country over which he would preside.
