Welsh First Minister Says People Have Right to Protest during King Charles Visit

THE GUARDIAN: Mark Drakeford calls for policing to be proportionate, as silent demonstration planned in Cardiff

Placards and wellwishers outside Llandaff Cathedral. Drakeford said he expected protests to ‘be a footnote to the dominant feelings of the day’. Photograph: Carl Recine/Reuters
The Welsh first minister has said that anti-monarchists have a right to protest in Cardiff when King Charles visits the Welsh capital on Friday on the last leg of his tour of the four nations, but called for them to be restrained.

Mark Drakeford also made it clear that he did not expect there to be an extravagant investiture for William, the new Prince of Wales, but said he thought he could play an important role in Welsh life.

The Labour first minister said that while nobody would expect William to suddenly become fluent in Welsh, he believed he would “want to recognise” its importance in shaping modern life in Wales.

A silent anti-monarchist demonstration is due to begin from 1pm at Cardiff Castle, organised under the banner “Real Democracy Now”. » | Steven Morris | Friday, September 16, 2022

Funérailles d’Elizabeth II : Charles III au Pays de Galles, avant la « veillée des princes » : Le nouveau roi poursuit sa longue série d’engagements officiels, et achève à Cardiff une tournée dans les quatre nations constitutives du Royaume-Uni. Vendredi soir, les quatre enfants de la monarque observeront une « veillée des princes » autour du cercueil de leur mère. »