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The greatest of the Plantagenets and the Plantagenets had the blood of Saxon and Norman united in their veins brought into union with his people the Celts who had made their home in the mountains of Wales I say "union" for it was not wholly "subjection" and the first great step towards "The Empire" was made when Edward Longshanks, King of England, six hundred and nine years ago, created his fourth son, Edward, the first English Prince of Wales.

But this was but a step ; for neither then nor two hundred and thirty-four years later when Wales was formally incor- porated with England could any man have a real conception of the might and grandeur to come.

Plantagenet passed and the mon- archy of the Bed Ease and of- the White Harry Tudor and Henry the much married and his family pas- sed away and James Stewart was the next heir.

He was already King of Scotland.

What was to be done ? It could not be that he would resign the Crown of the northern Kingdom, nor would he fail to assert his claim to that of the South.