Private School News

Meeting Prince Charles

Welsh teacher, Miss Wynne-Jones and Tomas Lee, a Sixth Form pupil at Rydal Penrhos presented a bibliography to Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall during their visit to the ‘Welsh Historic Gardens Trust’ (W.H.G.T.) at Aberglasney Gardens in Carmarthenshire. Mark Baker, a pupil from Rydal School is connected with the W.H.G.T. and, prompted the idea that Miss Wynne-Jones and Rydal Penrhos work on a project of developing a bibliography for Prince Charles’s home in South Wales, the Llwynywermod Estate.

At last the day arrived, a perfect summer’s day, not a cloud in the sky, and all hands in a last minute preparation of the visit. Tomas Lee did Rydal Penrhos proud in his presentation of the bibliography, and many said what a delightfully polite young man he was. The highlight of the day for Miss Wynne-Jones was to meet Prince Charles, discuss the project with him and thank him most earnestly in allowing Rydal Penrhos to carry out the project.

At the end of the day, sitting on the terrace surveying the pond, in discursive reflection with Mark Baker, the project had been well received and, it is with thanks to Mark that we owe the opportunity of participating and completing a privileged piece of work.