HISTORY RECALLED.
VISIT TO CARNARVON CASTLE BY KING AND QUEEN (By Telegraph-Press Assn.- Copyright) LONDON, July 15. Standing on the spot at - Carnarvon Castle where) according to tradition, the infant .-.Edward II was shown to chieftains,- the King and Queen to-day ‘'showed themselves to the people.” As they advanced to the edge of the platform fanfares sounded and the thousands of people cheered. Carnarvon Castle dates from the reign of Edward I (1274-1307) and is one of the finest examples of that great period of castle-building. Its chief title to fame, however, is that it Was. the birthplace of the first Prince of Wales —later King Edward 11, According to legend, King Edward, I, to pacify the Welsh people following the defeat and capture Of David, their !a?t independent prince, brought out the newly born.infant —“a prince who could speak dio English” —on a shield, and, showing him to the throng surrounding Carnarvon Castle,' proclaimed: “Here is ‘4yoUiv prinoe. ” It is hold by many people (that the Prince of Wales’s motto, leli Dien, is a corrupted spelling of the Welsh words Eieh Dyn (your man) used by the King on that occasion.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 July 1937, Page 7
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