The Prince of Wales has no plans to stage an investiture to formally mark his new title, royal sources have revealed.

Instead, he is focused on gaining the trust and respect of the Welsh people.

As the Prince and Princess arrived in Holyhead for their first visit to the country since acquiring their new titles, it emerged that William did not want a lavish ceremony like his father’s and that as such, there may be no investiture at all.

A Kensington Palace source said it was “not even on the table”, there were no plans for one and it was not something that they were currently looking at.

The source said: “The Prince and Princess will approach their new roles in the way that they have approached their other work; in their own way.”

That means they are focussed solely on “deepening the trust and respect of the people of Wales” and will visit the country again before Christmas.

On Tuesday, they travelled to Anglesey where they made their first home as newlyweds and where they took Prince George and Princess Charlotte during the Platinum Jubilee weekend. They will later travel to Swansea.

Sources said Wales had a special place in the hearts of both the Prince and Princess.

It was where Prince William’s parents took him for his first royal engagement, aged eight.

The decision not to hold a grand investiture marks a notable shift in tone.

The King was officially invested with the title by the Queen in an elaborate ceremony at Caernarfon Castle in July 1969, 11 years after he was made Prince of Wales

The Queen placed a coronet on her son’s head and helped arrange robes around his shoulders before he pledged allegiance to his mother with the words: “I, Charles, Prince of Wales do become your liege man of life and limb.”

But the ceremony took place against the backdrop of a growing sense of Welsh nationalism and led to protests and years of bitterness, with the very idea of an investiture angering many to this day.

The Prince of Wales title has long proved controversial as the last Welsh Prince of Wales, Dafydd ap Gruffydd, was killed in 1283 on the order of Edward I of England, who went on to make his 16-year-old son, Edward II, the first English Prince of Wales in 1301 with an investiture at Caernarfon Castle.

Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas,  a former speaker of the Senedd, revealed earlier this month that he had once told Prince Charles, as he was then, that he hoped there would never again be an investiture in Caernarfon Castle.

“(Prince Charles) laughed and said, ‘Do you think I want to put William through what I went through?’” he said.

The Prince and Princess have made clear that they will do things differently.

Prince William spoke to Mark Drakeford, the first minister of Wales, in the aftermath of the Queen’s death as he and his wife prepared for their new roles.

Kensington Palace said they had told him they considered it an honour to be asked to serve the Welsh people and would “do so with humility and great respect.”

A royal source also said: “The new Princess of Wales appreciates the history associated with this role but will understandably want to look to the future as she creates her own path.”

When they moved to Anglesey in 2010, Prince William asked to be taught a little of the Welsh language, including the Welsh National Anthem, and was determined to ensure his pronunciation was correct.

Ed Perkins, their communications secretary at the time and a Welshman, said recently: “It’s not an easy language to pronounce but he really wanted to get it right because, to him, it was a mark of respect to the Welsh people.

“I remember going to an agricultural show with him and he was greeting all the farmers by saying bore da (good morning) and their faces beamed.”

Source: Telegraph.co.uk