This week in TV Guide: June 28, 1969

The big event this week is the investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales, broadcast live and in color via satellite from Caernarvon Castle in Wales on July 1, 1969. I wonder, even given that his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, was only 25 when she ascended to the throne, whether anyone watching that event that morning could possibly have imagined he would remain Price of Wales for so long? It's a glittering event, second only to that of the Coronation (and there hadn't been one of those since 1953), and there's been no little amount of controversy about it. Why, say some Welch, should their nation celebrate an event that meant "the end of its life as an independent country?" At a time when there's a need for improved housing, schools, roads and electric power, the Crown is spending $500,000 on a pageant that isn't even all that traditional, but a combination of several older rituals.Charles, just 20 years old and having concluded his second year at Cambridge, was candid in a rare…