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Ceremony for murdered Wales prince

Leading politicians and civic dignitaries were in mid Wales on Saturday to remember Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the last Prince of Wales. Welsh MPs, AMs, members of the House of Lords and political leaders gathered at the Cefn-y-Bedd Memorial in Cilmeri near Builth Wells in Powys. A ceremony is held every year on the nearest Saturday to the day the prince was killed.

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