Welsh first minister says people have right to protest during King Charles visit

Placards and wellwishers outside Llandaff Cathedral. Drakeford said he expected protests to ‘be a footnote to the dominant feelings of the day’. Photograph: Carl Recine/Reuters

The Welsh first minister has said that anti-monarchists have a right to protest in Cardiff when King Charles visits the Welsh capital on Friday on the last leg of his tour of the four nations, but called for them to be restrained.

Mark Drakeford also made it clear that he did not expect there to be an extravagant investiture for William, the new Prince of Wales, but said he thought he could play an important role in Welsh life.