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An American who says his ancestors were born on Anglesey , is claiming to be the King of Wales.

Allan Evans, who lives in Colarado, took out an advert in The Times this week to declare he will claim the crown in 30 days.

In the ad he claims that he is the direct descendant of an unbroken line, legally documented since the third century, which includes, John Evans Senior of Anglesey, who he claims was the last known king of Wales.

His plans for North Wales if he ascends the throne include turning Penrhyn Castle into his own version of Buckingham Palace and revert back to its apparent former name of Trefeilor.

Allan has bought a terraced house on Victoria Street in Caerau, Maesteg, in South Wales to rule from.

He has spent 11 years on a full-time research project into his ancestry and the lands, power and money he claims has been kept from him and his family, reports Wales Online.

Allan told how he has set up home in Wales because he “wanted to know the truth”.

A small kettle and cups sit in the corner of his South Wales living room and he makes a cup of coffee before sitting at the table and laying out the whole story.

He is, he says, a 10th generation American.

But having visited Wales in 1982 as a child, he fell in love with the land and in 2004 began full-time research into his own paternal genealogical line.

His grandfather had told him as a child that the Evans family originated from Anglesey and that royal connections had long been rumoured but eventually dismissed.

So Allan threw himself into finding out and over the course of 11 years he has used books and even visited the state of Georgia to view court documents – all of which have him convinced that he is, in fact, the rightful king of Wales.

With that he believes that vast estates and the money and power that goes with them have been kept from himself and his family.

The American believes his ancestor was Cunedda Wledig, who he describes as “the founder of the Kingdom of Wales, then known as the Kingdom of Gondor”.

He states: “[Cunedda] married the Princess of Powys, whose direct descendant was the Cilman Droed Ddu, being the founder of the 4th Royal Tribe of Wales who was the King of Wales and the King of the Isle of Man.”

The advert in The Times

Allan also claims that his ancestors were also the forebears of the Royal houses of “Lloyd, Tudor and Stuart”.

And he is adamant that John Evans, the last known king of Wales, had travelled back and forth to America in the 17th century, establishing a line there and therefore his connection to the crown,

But he said the “truth” had since been hidden and he believed people were working to keep it that way.

Allan, who said he’d bought the house in Maesteg in 2014, claimed a court building in America containing documents proving his claims had mysteriously burnt down.

He also said that two unnamed genealogists had vetted his evidence – an inch-thick report entitled The Primogeniture Progeny in America of John Evans Snr of Tre’rgo (sic) in Anglesey, Wales, the Last Known King of Wales – and had found it to be correct.

He added that the Monarchy and UK Government were well aware of him and had asked “through back channels” who wanted to be king: Allan or his father.

“My father doesn’t seem to have much interest in it,” said Allan, who won’t disclose his age.

He said the Queen and Prince Philip had taken a keen interest in the case and wanted it to be resolved.

On a handwritten piece of A4 paper, the King in waiting professes his love for Wales, and a list of 13 “current developments”, including demands for the Queen “to return the Crown of Llewelyn” to Wales and a “command” for Carwyn Jones to repay the Welsh Government £10,000 spent sending the First Minister to see Wales v England at Euro 2016.

His document states: “If he doesn’t do so, upon the ascendancy to the throne, the King will have him arrested and brought up on criminal charges of fraud, waste and abuse.”

He is obviously not giving up on his dream just yet.