Edward Millward
Edward Glynne Millward,, also known as Tedi Millward, was a Welsh nationalist politician.
Millward studied at Cathays High School in Cardiff and then the University College of South Wales, before becoming a lecturer. He married Silvia Hart, with whom he had two children: Llio, an actress and singer, and Andras, an author and martial arts trainer, who died in October 2016.
Millward became active in Plaid Cymru. He jointly founded the Welsh Language Society along with Welsh historian John Davies at a Plaid Cymru summer school in the summer of 1962. Millward stood for the party twice in Cardiganshire at the 1966 general election and Montgomeryshire in 1970, but was not elected. In 1966, he was elected as Vice-President of Plaid. He had just completed a two-year term as Vice-President of Plaid Cymru when he was asked to teach Welsh to Prince Charles ahead of his investiture as Prince of Wales. This took place over nine weeks at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Millward subsequently served as Plaid's spokesperson on water policy, in which role he advocated non-violent direct action against the construction of new reservoirs. In 1976, he was libelled by Willie Hamilton, who claimed that he had been involved in terrorist activities while tutoring Charles; he received £1,000 in a settlement.
Millward subsequently focused on his career as an academic, lecturing in Welsh at Aberystwyth. In the early 1980s, he supported Gwynfor Evans' successful campaign for a Welsh language television station. In 2003, he launched a campaign for a centre to commemorate Dafydd ap Gwilym.
He was played by Mark Lewis Jones in the Netflix series The Crown where he is shown teaching the Prince of Wales Welsh. The episode entitled “Tywysog Cymru” was praised for using the Welsh language in much of its dialogue, and was described as "incredibly useful" in promoting Welsh around the world.
