The Daily News. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1901. GOD BLESS THE PRINCE OF WALES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 266, 11 November 1901, Page 2

The Daily News. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1901. GOD BLESS THE PRINCE OF WALES.

A cable from London in this issue gives the long looked-for announcement that His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to confer on the Duke of York the time honoured title of the Prince of Wales. This ti'le was first conferred by Edward I. on . his son (afterward! Edward' ll,> at- the time of his conquest of Wales in 1284. According to the well-known tradition Edward I promised the Welsh chieftains to give them a prince bom in their own land, of unblemished mind, and unable to speak a wcrd of English. This promise went a long way to pacify the Welsh, bat 1 was only .kept in quite a different sense to that understood by the Welsh people. King Edward at once sent for Queen Catherine, and their son, born soon after at Cardiff, was presented to the Welsh as their Prince; but eren then it was not until he was over sixteen years of age—seventeen years after the promise had been (Bade—in 1301 that he was formally created Prince of Wales. Since then the title has been conferred on the eldest son of the King—but always by Royal letters patent—with the exception of Edward 111, who was never Prince of Wa'es. As he>r jto the Crown of Scotland, the Prices of Wales bears the titles of Prince and High Steward of Scotland, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew and Lord of the Isles. ' The title of Duke of Dublin was also' conferred on the present King on September 10, 1849, when it was ordained that it should belong to him and his | heirs for ever. A statute of the Order, of the Garter also ordains that the Prince of Wales, as soon as he receives' his title, shall become a Knight of the Garter. The arms ,of the Prince of l Wales are the Royal Arms, with the addition of a label of three points argent. The Prince of Wales has also a badge consisting of a plume of three white ostrich feathers, with the motto Ich dien (I serve), King Edward I. having, it is said, on presenting his infant son to the Welsh used the words Kiich dyn (this is your man) from which the present motto is corrupted, ''he King's action in conferring this distinction on the Duke of York will give very great satisfaction to his subjects everywhere, all of whom will heartily join with us in hoping he will long bear this old familiar title and in saying, " God Bless the Prince of Wale#."