Thank you very much for that response. I’ve been waiting five centuries to ask this question, of course, and I’m glad to have an answer from the Counsel General—that’s the purpose of having these sessions with him. But what happened with the Acts of Union was that the principality of Wales was abolished, and as Wales became part of England, to all intents and purposes, and was under the English Crown, the principality of Wales was abolished. Now, therefore, any talk of a principality in the context of a Welsh constitution is only some sort of romantic fantasy, and a royalist fantasy, indeed.

Will you, therefore—coming back to current times—as Counsel General, on behalf of the Welsh Government, pledge to this Assembly that you will never use the word ‘principality’ in referring to the constitutional status of Wales?