In
Wartime plan to use Princess to woo Welsh, the
Daily
Telegraph reports that Edward Iwi, a lawyer and constitutional
expert, suggested making the then Princess Elizabeth (now HRH Queen
Elizabeth), 'Duke of Cymru' 'to stop the Welsh nationalist movement
from becoming a danger in a future war with Nazi Germany' and 'to
create a focus of loyalty for the people of north Wales, whose
adherence to the British cause was considered suspect.'
Iwi warned of a flourishing nationalist movement in
north Wales that threatened to become a copy of the Irish
republican movement and a danger to the unity of Great
Britain.
The more extreme members were already calling for dominion status
like that granted to Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
The lawyer gave as an example an arson attack on a RAF depot in
Caernarvonshire in 1936 carried out by three Welsh
nationalists.
('Cymru' is Welsh, for Wales, and is pronounced Kum'-ree.)