Prince Charles marks golden jubilee with week spent in Wales

Busy schedule of engagements comes 50 years after investiture

The Prince of Wales will be starting a tour of Wales 50 years to the day that he was invested with his title.

Heir to the throne Charles is spending the week with the Duchess of Cornwall, travelling around the country as they carry out more than 20 engagements over five days.

Today, the golden jubilee of his 1969 investiture, the prince, president of the Prince’s Trust, will visit the charity’s call centre at Nantgarw, near the Welsh capital Cardiff, to meet those who help the 72,000 young people who get in touch with the charity over the phone.

Charles, patron of the British Horse Loggers, will also visit Ty’n-y-Coed Forest today to meet horse loggers who use horses as the “base machine” in the extraction of timber, to see their impact on the Llantrisant woodland.

Other engagements include visiting South Wales Police Headquarters in Bridgend tomorrow, and Royal Glamorgan Hospital to launch the Prince of Wales Nursing Cadets scheme.

At Charles and Camilla’s Welsh home Llwynywermod in Llandovery in Camarthenshire, the couple will host a music and drama evening, featuring performances by the tenor Wynne Evans, and announce the new royal harpist.

Other engagements will bring back memories of the end of the 1960s for the prince. He went on a week-long tour of Wales following his investiture, travelling to Swansea, among other destinations.

On Wednesday Charles will be back in Swansea, visiting Victoria Park and the Patti Pavilion, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its city status, which was granted after the prince’s ceremony.

He will also see the Morriston Tabernacle Chapel, which he visited in 1969, and meet members of the congregation and the local community.

On Thursday the prince and duchess will visit a primary school and the Llanover Estate in Elliots Town, New Tredegar, among other engagements.

Camilla, president of Maggie’s, will visit the charity’s first cancer care centre in Whitchurch, Cardiff.

On Friday Charles will travel to Trawsfynydd in Gwynedd to see Yr Ysgwrn, home of the celebrated Welsh war poet Hedd Wyn.

Pictures: PA. The Queen and Prince Charles at a reception at Buckingham Palace to mark the jubilee.

The Prince of Wales during his investiture at Caernarfon Castle.