‘King’ waiting to reclaim throne has Valley home

THEY may not know it, but the residents of an ordinary street in South Wales could be living next door to royalty.

For Allan Evans – the American who took out an ad in The Times this week to declare he will claim the crown of Wales in 30 days – chose Victoria Street in Caerau, Maesteg, as the place from which he would rule.

Having purchased a terraced house, he rang to offer the inside scoop on the 11-year research project into his ancestry and the lands, power and money he claims have been kept from him.

Meeting in Caerau last June, his home is an ordinary terraced house, small and barely habitable – unlike Penrhyn Castle in North Wales, which he wants reverted to its former name of Trefeilor before it becomes his own version of Buckingham Palace.

He is, he says, a 10th generation American. But having visited Wales in 1982 as a child, he fell in love with the land and in 2004 began full-time research into his own paternal genealogical line.

His grandfather had told him as a child that the Evans family originated from Anglesey and that royal connections had long been rumoured, but dismissed.

So Allan threw himself into finding out and over the course of 11 years he has used books and even visited the state of Georgia to view court documents, all of which have him convinced that he is, in fact, the rightful king of Wales.

He believes that vast estates and the money and power that go with them have been kept from himself and his family.

In his large Times advert, he said he is the direct descendant of an unbroken line, legally documented since the third century, which includes John Evans Sr of Anglesey, the last known king of Wales.

He believes his ancestor was Cunedda Wledig, whom he describes as “the founder of the Kingdom of Wales, then known as the Kingdom of Gondor”.

He states: “[Cunedda] married the princess of Powys, whose direct descendant was the Cilman Droed Ddu, being the founder of the 4th Royal Tribe of Wales who was the king of Wales and the king of the Isle of Man.”

He also claims that his ancestors were also the forebears of the royal houses of “Lloyd, Tudor and Stuart”.

And he is adamant that John Evans, the last known king of Wales, had travelled back and forth to America in the 17th century, establishing a line there and therefore his connection to the crown.

But he said the “truth” had since been hidden and he believed people were working to keep it that way.

Allan claimed a court building in America containing documents proving his claims had mysteriously burned down.

He also said that two unnamed genealogists had vetted his evidence – an inchthick report entitled The Primogeniture Progeny in America of John Evans Snr of Tre’rgo (sic) in Anglesey, Wales, the Last Known King of Wales – and had found it to be correct.

He added that the monarchy and UK Government were well aware of him and had asked “through back channels” who wanted to be king: Allan or his father.

“My father doesn’t seem to have much interest in it,” said Allan, who won’t disclose his age.

He said the Queen and Prince Philip had taken a keen interest in the case and wanted it to be resolved.

On a handwritten piece of A4 paper, the king in waiting professes his love for Wales, and a list of 13 “current developments”, including demands for the Queen “to return the Crown of Llewelyn” to Wales and a “command” for Carwyn Jones to repay the Welsh Government £10,000 spent sending the First Minister to see Wales v England at Euro 2016.