William and Kate, Prince and Princess of Wales – one year on
The IndependentGet the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Prince and Princess of Wales have spent the period since Queen Elizabeth II’s death developing their relationship with the people of Wales. The use of the title Prince of Wales has again generated controversy with a petition calling for its end “out of respect” for the Welsh, gathering more than 25,000 signatures soon after the Queen’s death. Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas said Charles laughed and said: “Do you think I want to put William through what I went through?” William and Kate made their first visit to Wales as the nation’s new prince and princess just a few weeks after the Queen’s death, travelling to Anglesey, their first home when newly-weds, and where they raised their eldest son Prince George for the first few months of his life. William, who is also the Duke of Cornwall, a title inherited from his father after the Queen’s death, made his first visit to Cornwall in November last year, meeting staff, volunteers and young people involved in a community environmental project, and returned in July to open a new restaurant and atrium at the Duchy of Cornwall’s nursery.