The Third Anglo-Japanese Agreement of Alliance was signed by the United Kingdom and Japan, which was somewhat of a British protégé, extending the date of the alliance from 1915 to 1921.
Prince Edward was invested as the Prince of Wales, in Wales, the first time since 1616 that the ceremony had occurred there.
The title is an ancient one which originated with the Welsh rulers of Gwynedd to signal their claim to superiority over other Welsh princes. They began to use it in the 12th Century. Edward I of England co opted it for his son Edward of Caernarfon where the use of it, sometimes challenged, for the future King of England started.
Edward I investing his son Edward of Caernarvon (the later King Edward II), as the prince of Wales, 1301.
The whole thing, while symbolic, and brought about as David Lloyd George, was Welsh, was unfortunate in some was, given Edward's later history.
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