Word: caernarvon
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...Games' final ceremony in Cardiff, Wales that Charles was getting the title which Edward I first bestowed upon his own son in 1301. "I intend," said the Queen, "to create my son Prince of Wales today. When he is grown up, I will present him to you at Caernarvon." In addition to being Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Prince and Great Steward of Scotland, Charles Philip Arthur George can also look forward to being Earl of Chester and Knight of the Garter. The last...
...Britain began to fight over his identity. The Herald (of Caernarvon, Wales) proudly claimed him as a Welshman. The Herald (of New York City) declared that he was born in Missouri. Stanley had no wish to confess his Welsh illegitimacy, but even less to tell the world that he was a Confederate soldier turned Unionist and a deserter from the Navy to boot. He made Britain his base, left others to fight out the problem...
Divorced. By John Conrad Russell, Viscount Amberley, 32, son of Britain's Philosopher Bertrand Russell: Susan Doniphan Lindsay, 28, daughter of late U.S. poet Vachel Lindsay, on grounds of adultery; after eight years of marriage, three children; in Caernarvon, Wales...
...nine weeks Fox cameramen toured Britain, shooting Technicolor background footage of the island's vistas and keeps-Caernarvon, Warwick, Braemar, Eilean Donan and Alnwick (which in the picture serves for Arthur's Camelot). The Scottish village of Dornie, used for a viking stronghold, was mostly rebuilt on the Fox lot for the big siege scene...
...Christmas Eve he called Emlyn P. Evans, chairman of the Caernarvon Liberal Association, to his Criccieth home. There, amid the gold-&-silver mementos filling the room, the great little man with the flowing white mane and piercing blue eyes announced his decision. He was going to take his doctors' advice; he would not contest the next election. Caernarvon would have to find another candidate...