Who plays Edward Millward, Prince Charles's Welsh tutor, in The Crown?
Answer
Mark Lewis Jones
Mark Lewis Jones plays Edward Millward, Prince Charles’s Welsh tutor, in The Crown.
Jones appears in season 3 as Millward, the Welsh academic assigned to teach Charles before his 1969 investiture as Prince of Wales. His character challenges the prince to understand Welsh language, history and national feeling rather than treating the assignment as a ceremonial exercise.
The storyline is based on a real episode in Charles’s education. Charles studied at the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth for a term and received Welsh instruction from Edward Millward, a prominent Welsh scholar and Plaid Cymru nationalist. Millward helped prepare him for the speech delivered at Caernarfon Castle on 1 July 1969.
The role is easy to mix up with other season 3 guests. Ben Daniels plays photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, Andrew Buchan plays Andrew Parker Bowles, and Tim McMullan plays Robin Woods, Dean of Windsor. Jones’s Millward appears in the episode “Tywysog Cymru,” whose Welsh title means “Prince of Wales.”