Prince of Wales soil and speaking no other language"). William Camden wrote in his 1607 work "Britannia" that originally the title "Prince of Wales" was not conferred automatically upon the eldest living son of the King of England because Edward II (who had been the first English Prince of Wales) neglected to invest his eldest son, the future Edward III, with that title. It was Edward III who revived the practice of naming the eldest son Prince of Wales, which was then maintained by his successors: Nevertheless, according to conventional wisdom, since 1301 the Prince of Wales has usually been the eldest living
HMS Prince of Wales (1860) by Frank Brangwyn, a print of which can be seen in Bruges' Groeningemuseum today. HMS Prince of Wales (1860) HMS "Prince of Wales" was one of six 121-gun screw-propelled first-rate three-decker line-of-battle ships of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 25 January 1860. In 1869 she was renamed HMS "Britannia" and under that name served at Dartmouth as a cadet training ship until 1905. The "Prince of Wales" was originally a 3,186 ton 120 gun design by John Edye and Isaac Watts for a modified "Queen"-class sailing line-of-battle ship. She was laid down at Portsmouth on 10 June 1848,