Prince of Wales - Drury Lane, London, UK
N 51° 30.874 W 000° 07.316
30U E 699691 N 5710976
The Prince of Wales public house stands at the junction of Great Queen Street and Drury Lane in London's theatreland.
Waymark Code: WME7P5
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 04/15/2012
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The Wikipedia website (visit
link) tells us:
"The Prince of Wales's feathers is the heraldic badge
of the Heir Apparent to the British and Commonwealth Realms thrones. It consists
of three white feathers emerging from a gold coronet. A ribbon below the coronet
bears the motto Ich dien (a contraction of the German for 'I serve', ich diene).
As well as being used in royal heraldry, the badge is sometimes used to
symbolise Wales, particularly in Welsh rugby union and rugby league; however,
its use as such is controversial and rejected by some Welsh nationalists as a
symbol of the British monarchy rather than of Wales."
An information board, on the pub's wall, tells us more
about the establishment:
"The Prince of Wales
150-151 Drury Lane WC2
Established in 1852, proprietor then being Henry Wells, this public house,
formerly a potato warehouse, was named after Queen Victoria's son Edward VII. An
early medieval lane, originally called Vi de Aldwych, then named in about 1500,
after Sir Robert Drury, a successful barrister from Suffolk. Drury Lane had the
reputation of being a place of ill repute, where two of the first recorded cases
of the plague were discovered - two French sailors who had travelled from The
Netherlands.
Drury Lane now being world famous as the heart of theatreland. Places of
interest nearby being Covent Garden Freemasons Hall and Drury Lane Royal
Theatre, Mary 'Perdiata' Robinson, actress Gainsborough's model and mistress of
the Prince of Wales lived in Great Queen Street 1774."