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Prince of Wales during a visit to the Wales Investment Summit(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n
The Prince of Wales spoke about setting up his first home in Wales as he hailed Wales as the place for foreign investors to do business. Here is what you need to know:<\/p>\n
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- Prince William was speaking at Wales Investment Summit at the ICC Wales in Newport<\/a>, where he told the audience he was “proud” to be following in his father\u2019s footsteps. The Welsh Government<\/a> summit, which attracted 300 firms and investors from 32 countries.<\/li>\n
- He praised the King for showing “leadership in championing Welsh business and innovation” decades ago, when he personally encouraged the co-founder of Sony to open a factory in Wales. The future King also appreciated the “sense of warmth and belonging” that makes Wales unique.<\/li>\n
- He described experiencing that after setting up his first home with wife Kate on Anglesey<\/a> when he was an RAF search and rescue helicopter pilot.<\/li>\n
- The prince said: \u201cWales was the first place Catherine and I made our home together \u2013 on the island of Anglesey. When you make a home in Wales, you join a family of three million people, and the sense of warmth and belonging is what makes Wales unlike anywhere else.<\/li>\n
- He added: “I am pleased to be continuing the work of my father, the King, who over half a century ago, personally encouraged the co-founder of Sony to open its first European factory here in Wales. His leadership in championing Welsh business and innovation is something which I am proud to have the opportunity to continue today. Because I believe that we have reached another significant moment for Welsh investment. An opportunity defined not by the challenges we collectively face, but by extraordinary possibility.\u201d<\/li>\n
- The sectors represented by the companies who attended the summit included clean energy, technology, life sciences, financial services, manufacturing and the creative industries.<\/li>\n
- In Wales there are 1,545 foreign-owned businesses active, employing more than 176,500 people across the nation, according to the Welsh Government. Read more about the summit here.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He was speaking at a global summit about his love for the country and how he was welcomed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,532,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-606994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-prince-william","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115648990558291895","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}