Prince of Wales titled Princess of Wales. There was also no Prince of Wales for the first several years of the reign of Elizabeth II. Prince Charles was not named Prince of Wales until 1958, when he was nine years old. The title of "Princess of Wales" has always been held by the Prince's wife in her capacity as spouse of the heir apparent and therefore future queen consort. The current Princess of Wales is Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, who automatically assumed the title upon her legal marriage to Prince Charles. Camilla however has chosen not to be publicly known by the title
Prince of Wales (1789 ship) Co., who sailed her on the London-West Indies run. She is last listed in "Lloyd's Register" in 1811, still trading with Antigua. In 1795 the EIC hired "Prince of Wales" and contracted to deliver government provisions for the New South Wales colony. She left Portsmouth on 26 June under the command of Master William Milner, and carrying of beef and of pork. The outward voyage was uneventful, with "Prince of Wales" rounding the Cape of Good Hope and proceeding eastward through the Southern Ocean to reach Port Jackson on 2 November. Her cargo was unloaded over a period of three