2-950-982 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The New Bard', 6 August 1946, (1947). Princess Elizabeth (future Queen Elizabeth II) is admitted to the circle of the Bards of Wales during the National Eisteddfod of Wales at Mountain Ash. Here she is standing before the Logan Stone, wearing the robe of an Ovate, as she is received into the Order by poet and preacher William Crwys Williams, the Arch-Druid. From "Princess Elizabeth: The Illustrated Story of Twenty-one Years in the Life of the Heir Presumptive", by Dermot Morrah. [Odhams Press Limited, London, 1947]