Why some people are offended by the Prince of Wales title

Given to the heirs to the British throne, the title has a controversial history

Prince William
William was made Prince of Wales by his father, King Charles III
(Image credit: Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

The Prince and Princess of Wales visited the nation for the first time since being given their new titles – but a petition calling to end the use of the title has won tens of thousands of signatures.

The Times reported that the royal couple were given a “warm” welcome in Holyhead on Tuesday as they visited a lifeboat station. William revealed during the day that he needs to brush up on his Welsh language skills and reminisced about time spent nearby on Anglesey, where he and his wife lived for three years after their marriage in 2011.

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 Sorcha Bradley is a writer at The Week and a regular on “The Week Unwrapped” podcast. She worked at The Week magazine for a year and a half before taking up her current role with the digital team, where she mostly covers UK current affairs and politics. Before joining The Week, Sorcha worked at slow-news start-up Tortoise Media. She has also written for Sky News, The Sunday Times, the London Evening Standard and Grazia magazine, among other publications. She has a master’s in newspaper journalism from City, University of London, where she specialised in political journalism.