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| Prince Charles starts summer tour of Wales visiting family firms | Prince Charles starts summer tour of Wales visiting family firms |
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| Prince Charles has started his annual summer tour of Wales, which includes visits to three family businesses. | |
| He is in south west Wales on Monday touring a food company, woollen mill and cheese factory. | He is in south west Wales on Monday touring a food company, woollen mill and cheese factory. |
| Every summer the prince and the Duchess of Cornwall spend a week at Llwynywermod, their farmhouse home in Carmarthenshire, and make a series of visits around Wales. | Every summer the prince and the Duchess of Cornwall spend a week at Llwynywermod, their farmhouse home in Carmarthenshire, and make a series of visits around Wales. |
| The theme this year is "celebrating Wales, past, present and future". | The theme this year is "celebrating Wales, past, present and future". |
| Highlights include the royal couple commemorating Wales' coal mining heritage with a visit to the Welsh national mining memorial at the scene of Britain's worst pit disaster. | Highlights include the royal couple commemorating Wales' coal mining heritage with a visit to the Welsh national mining memorial at the scene of Britain's worst pit disaster. |
| They will lay a wreath on Thursday at the memorial in Senghenydd near Caerphilly where an explosion killed 439 miners and a rescuer at Universal Colliery in 1913. | |
| The memorial was unveiled last year on the site of the colliery, exactly 100 years on from the disaster. | |
| The tour started on Monday with a visit to Cnwd Food Company at Cross Hands where he was shown the production process. | |
| Later the prince, who is patron of the Campaign for Wool, is meeting staff during a tour of Melin Tregwynt woollen mill near Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. | |
| He will round off day one with a tour of the Caws Cenarth cheese factory at Lancych, Carmarthenshire, which he last visited in 1998. | |
| Monday, 30 June | Monday, 30 June |
| Tuesday, 1 July | Tuesday, 1 July |
| Thursday, 3 July | Thursday, 3 July |
| Friday, 4 July | Friday, 4 July |