[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: New Question: Brit Royalty ...?

[Shaun Hately]

On 31 Oct 2003 at 22:26, pengolodh_sc wrote:

> The title Earl of Chester seems to have been connected with the 
> British Royal Family since the time of Edward I, but I found no more 
> information about it.

It's a Palatine Earldom, and is traditionally conferred at the same time as the title 
Prince of Wales. Edward I was the first to be given it at the same time as 
becoming Prince of Wales, and since the 14th Century has only been conferred 
on the Prince of Wales.


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