Charles and the Welsh Revolt
Charles and the Welsh Revolt
Author(s): Arwel Vittle
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ISBN: 9781800994249

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ISBN: 9781800994249 Price: INR 620.99
 
A brief popular history of the Welsh protest against the Investiture of Prince Charles in Caernarfon in 1969 (as seen in popular Netflix series The Crown). From Cymdeithas yr Iaith to the Free Wales Army, Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru and many other groups, placards, sit-ins, paramilitary-style parades and even a bombing campaign across the country showed that many in Wales were not happy to accept an English Prince of Wales.
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A brief popular history of the Welsh protest against the Investiture of Prince Charles in Caernarfon in 1969 (as seen in popular Netflix series The Crown). From Cymdeithas yr Iaith to the Free Wales Army, Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru and many other groups, placards, sit-ins, paramilitary-style parades and even a bombing campaign across the country showed that many in Wales were not happy to accept an English Prince of Wales.
Table of contents
  • About the Welsh version of the book
  • Introduction
  • End of a royal line
  • Lloyd George’s Investiture
  • ‘Presenting Wales to the world in her Sunday best’
  • No peace in the Temple
  • ‘Charles Windsor Shall Not Pass’
  • Gwynfor’s dilemma
  • George and the Dragon’s Tongue
  • ‘Fe godwn ni eto’
  • ‘Hymn of hate’
  • Political policing
  • Children of the revolution
  • Crushing the FWA
  • Aber under siege
  • Activists and spies
  • Generational conflict
  • Agents provocateurs?
  • Cilmeri
  • Hostages and martyrs
  • ‘An awful lot of people watching other people’
  • ‘A peculiar royal salute’
  • The aftermath
  • ‘A national therapy’
  • ‘Insensitive to the point of insulting’
  • Acknowledgements
  • Bibliography and further reading
  • About the author
  • Picture Section

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