In its nearly 200 years, this paper has recorded any number of reigns, but with its coverage of the King, 75 today, it has charted the change in the country too. His investiture as Prince of Wales in 1969 took place in a different world: more deferential, more royalist, even if it was subversive on the margins.
The late Queen, presenting her heir, awkward in ermine, to the country (as well as to Wales) represented a different kind of monarchy: more remote than we’re used to now. It was epitomised in the crown that sits a little lopsidedly on the youthful prince, symbolic of the old monarchy. But on the same page, we read of bomb threats. Welsh nationalists were angry.
