LETTERS

A nation in mourning

In Tracy Borman’s feature on Princess Charlotte of Wales, she refers to the whole of the kingdom going into deep mourning for several weeks after the death of the princess. Indeed, the impact was felt as far away as the small parish of Llanfihangel Abercywyn, near St Clears in Carmarthenshire.

Joseph Evans, curate of the parish, recorded only four burials in 1817, two of which were of my 4x great grandparents Thomas and Margaret Griffith. Between David Roger, who was