The badge has no connection with the [[List of rulers of Wales|native Princes of Wales]] although is associated with the English and British Princes of Wales.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}}
The feathers are the badge of the heir apparent and Duke of Cornwall regardless of whether the Prince of Wales title is held or not.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Club |first=Powys-land |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Montgomeryshire_Collections/ddU4AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |title=The Montgomeryshire Collections |date=1873 |publisher=Clifton Press |pages=38 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Bolitho |first=Hector |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/King_Edward_VIII/tucgAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0&bsq=hector%20bolitho%20feathers%20cornwall |title=King Edward VIII: His Life and Reign |date=1937 |publisher=Eyre and Spottiswoode |isbn=978-7-80037-908-6 |pages=22 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=O'Shea |first=Michael J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nKfIFtE2d_gC&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&hl=en |title=James Joyce and Heraldry |date=1986-01-01 |publisher=SUNY Press |isbn=978-0-88706-269-8 |pages=108, 174 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Brewer |first=Ebenezer Cobham |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IgjAJazrBWwC&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&hl=en |title=Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable |date=2001 |publisher=Wordsworth Editions |isbn=978-1-84022-310-1 |pages=123 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=WalesOnline |date=2007-03-02 |title='Stop using my Three Feathers' |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/stop-using-my-three-feathers-2263539 |access-date=2023-06-01 |website=WalesOnline |language=en}}</ref>
