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 (1786 ship) Unsurprisingly, there is no listing for "Prince of Wales" in "Lloyd's Register" in 1796. What is perhaps more surprising is that "Prince of Wales" returned to British ownership. Her master is Andrews, her owner Bartly, and her trade London-Martinique. The process by which she returned to British ownership is currently obscure, but one suspects that the Royal Navy recaptured her in the West Indies, but so far evidence for the conjecture is lacking. Barclay and Co. sailed "Prince of Wales" between the West Indies and London, and particularly Martinique and London, from 1797 to 1800."Lloyd's Register" for (1800) shows that