Investiture Of The Prince Of Wales

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32030, 3 July 1969, Page 12

Investiture Of The Prince Of Wales

Sir,—There is probably a school of thought among the many millions of people everywhere who listened to this ceremony which derided it for a pageantry long out of date. We do not propose to join issue with them, but in our modern parvenu world there can be few of us with English or Welsh blood in our veins who did not recognise in it the significance of our countries’ long and not inglorious history. Neither, we think, in the dignity and magnificent phraseology of its presentation could this investiture have been matched in any other country in the world but Great Britain, whose greatness, if now in eclipse, has made its impression on the centuries, with some benefit at least to those who lived safely and for a long time under the Pax Britannica. One wonders whether the striving nations of today will ever be able to boast a similar record, or survive long enough to proclaim it—Yours, etc., I. TREW, "M. TREW. July 2, 1969.