When the Prince of Wales takes it into his head to appoint a
Household Bard he hasn't reckoned on the delectable but subversive
Cerys Gifford Huws, fine poet in the strict metres and staunch
Nationalist, who tries to teach him Welsh and encourages him to
make his Principate more truly reflective of the country from which
he takes his title. Not only does he introduce Highgrove and
Floomerwormwood, his little place down in Wales, to all things
Welsh but insists on innovations like bilingual road-signs in
England, Welsh on the syllabus of schools, a Welsh page in all the
Sunday papers, and much more. For a while he is admired for his
bold patriotism but eventually the English Establishment reacts and
the monarchy falls into disrepute. By 2020, the Yookay having
broken up after Scotland's secession, Cymru is an Autonomous
Republic within the Celtic Confederation and ruled by a permanent
green-red coalition. Charles has renounced his title and his claim
to the throne, and gone to live quietly at Gregynog, where he has
found contentment at last. With the death of his mother, and
William's succession, the Windsors troop out on to the balcony of
Buckingham Palace, and the sound of gunfire is heard echoing down
the Mall. And all this happens because of a Welsh poet...This
'likely story', at once provocative and percipient, but never
bland, is partly a critique of the institution of monarchy and
partly a satire on the culture and politics of contemporary Wales.
Laying no claim to 'literary merit' (the bane of so much of what is
published in Wales nowadays), but elegantly written, it will make
some readers grin and get up the noses of others, in about equal
measure.
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