There is a contemporary common sense that many people know, which is that the British crown prince often has a title of "Prince of Wales". Of course, it is only suitable for male British crown princes. But why would the First Heir to the Throne of an English Man be given this title? Not everyone knows it. In fact, this is a question that is related to the history and current situation of the United Kingdom. Britain was originally just an island country suspended in the Atlantic Ocean, with a total area of less than 300,000 square kilometers. Just looking at the population and area is not a world power. However, in history, Britain is the world's first colonial empire and the earliest birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, and the total area of the colonies it once owned in the world is almost 150 times that of its total local area, known as the Empire of the Sun Never Sets. Therefore, it has a significant impact on the world's history in the last 600 years, so the history and basic pattern of the United Kingdom itself have received global attention. The British mainland is mainly located on the island of Great Britain, and there is a small piece of land on the nearby island of Ireland, which is also a historical site of the British colonization of Ireland for a long time.
But after the almost complete collapse of the colonial system, the British Empire returned to its pre-expansion origins. Even this origin may not be able to be saved, because Scotland in the north has always wanted to separate its families. Because Scotland has always been relatively noisy, it is more prominent internationally. But there is also England and Wales on the island of Great Britain. Wales' status is basically the same as Scotland's. The Indigenous population of Wales, which was originally the same as scotland, belonged to the Celtic system, which was very different from the Anglo-Saxon system of the English. Scotland has always spoken Scotland; Wales, though also Celtic, speaks another language called Gaelic, which is neither English nor Scots. Thus the three major parts of the mainland of the British Isles belong to each of their own groups of origins and independent languages. For the island of Great Britain, the Celts were truly native natives, while the Anthonnes migrated across the sea from the north of present-day Germany to the British Isles during the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the Great Migration of European peoples. Belongs to the complete outsider,
However, these Onsa outsiders later turned against the guests, gradually occupying the most southern position of the British Isle, relatively warm and arable area, but instead drove some of the original indigenous Celts to the windy and cold Scotland on the back; one was expelled to Wales near the west coast, and the farthest was driven to the island of Ireland, becoming the later Irish. Although in the following centuries, Britain suffered some new invasions from later generations, such as the Norman Conquest in 1066. But the total population of the Norman nobility was too small, and they initially spoke french mainly. The reason for the small number of Normans did not change the basic pattern of English dominated by Antha and English speakers. Later, the Norman upper echelons and The Upper Anthony basically merged, forming the later English and the English language of the middle and late periods. However, the demographic and linguistic patterns of Scotland and Wales remained largely the same. Scotland also always had its own royal family, so it constantly went to war with England. It was not until 300 years ago, when the Scottish crown was extinct, that England and Scotland were officially united. Because of natural factors such as closer proximity, England controlled Wales earlier.
Some 150 years after the Norman Conquest of 1066, the traditional royal family of Wales had been wiped out by the English side. However, Wales also had a large number of traditional aristocrats. These nobles had difficulty resisting the british conquest head-on, but did not want to obediently surrender their lands and weapons. At this time, the King of England also realized that if the Welsh people were mainly purely conquered and suppressed for a long time, it would be difficult for them to be completely convinced. And if the force is focused on Wales for a long time, then scotland, which is more unconvinced in the north, will even take the opportunity to counterattack London. Therefore, on the island of Britain, this is the situation of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but England is dominant, and Wales does not even have a royal family at this time, which is easier to deal with than Scotland, which still has a royal family. Now that the King of England and a group of Welsh nobles had temporarily reached a state of balance of power at this time, the two sides began to sit down and negotiate terms. The King of England asked a group of Welsh nobles to negotiate in his welsh ruling stronghold, which was actually equivalent to negotiating in the "turret" built by the English in Wales.
So the Welsh nobles took the opportunity to propose a new condition, that is, Wales could no longer have a public king, but must establish a prince who was only one level lower than the king, that is, the new Prince of Wales. The prince must have been born in Wales and could not speak English or French, for the king of England at the time, after still belonging to the Duke of Normandy, usually spoke a mixture of French and English; and the new prince must have royal blood and be of high moral character, never harming anyone. These conditions, put forward by the Welsh nobility, apparently had their own calculations. It is implied that a new prince must be chosen from among the existing nobles of Wales. After all, they were the only ones born in Wales and spoke only Gaelic, not English and French. Moreover, these nobles basically have ancient royal blood. As for the high moral character and the like, it is all nonsense. But at least it shows that this group of Welsh nobles did not negotiate in advance internally, and who will eventually pick this head. Hanhai Wolf Mountain and Xiongnu Wolf Mountain believe that this also implies that these Welsh nobles are not united internally, and they all want to be this new prince, but they do not dare to take the initiative to jump out and become the new head bird.
Faced with this seemingly difficult request, the King of England only smiled slightly, and seemed to have already made up his mind. So he promised the nobles that one day a new Prince of Wales would be announced in public. When the news came out, not only the Welsh nobles were eager to try, but even ordinary Welsh people were quite interested, ready to see who would be elected as the new prince of the local area. So on the big day of public announcement, in the face of the crowd of people watching below the castle, the King of England carried a baby boy to the balcony and publicly announced: This is the new Prince of Wales! In fact, this baby boy was no one else, it was the son of the newly born king of England, who met the first requirements after the royal family; this baby boy had just been born in this castle on the land of Wales, and also met the requirements of having to be born in Wales. Newborn babies don't speak English or French, they just cry, perfectly in line with the language requirements. Newborn babies naturally never hurt anyone, and there is absolutely no flaw in character. The 4 conditions were fully met, and he was proclaimed the new Prince of Wales.
The Welsh nobles, who had preconditions beforehand, understood that they had been openly put together by the King of England. However, they did not unite and did not dare to openly resist, so they could only suffer a historical dumb loss in this matter. The infant was the eldest son of the King of England at the time and the first direct heir. Since then, it has become a tradition for the first male heir of the King of England to serve as Prince of Wales, which is actually to imply that Wales no longer has its own king and prevent a long-term confrontation with England. However, not every crown prince who was crowned Prince of Wales will eventually become the king of England. The main thing was that they had not yet waited for the old king to abdicate, and they hung up first. But it did not prevent their sons from being crowned Prince of Wales and eventually succeeding to the throne. The last two generations of British kings have not had the experience of prince of Wales. The first is King George VI, who was originally the second son of the old King George V, and since he was not eligible to be Prince of Wales and could not inherit the throne, who knew that his eldest brother Edward VIII abdicated in 1936 because of marital problems, so that George VI picked up the leak and became the King of England.
George VI, on the other hand, had only two daughters and no sons. Therefore, after her death, the eldest daughter who ascended the throne in 1952 was directly called Queen Elizabeth II without the need to go through the process of being crowned Prince of Wales. The queen, who reigns to this day, was born in 1948 and was crowned Prince of Wales in 1958. By this year, the prince is more than 73 years old, and when the Prince of Wales has also been a prince for 63 years, the outside world judges that the probability of the Prince of Wales finally succeeding to the throne is not high. It is possible that three consecutive generations of British kings have not been princes of Wales. Is there a prince in the world for more than 70 years?