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Princess Diana in Bristol, 1987
Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.
Diana, Princess of Wales, The Guardian, 1995
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Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
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Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.
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The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort.
Roald Dahl, Speaking during the mid 1950s
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Wales is an old land with wounds that weep in hills. They wept before in the bodies of men and in the hearts of women and time will never heal them.
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You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve.
King Edward VIII, speaking during his one year term as King of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India
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Wales is the land of my fathers. And my fathers can have it.
Dylan Thomas, speaking later in his life, before his death in 1953.
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