To be clear, I’m not saying that Harry didn’t know that William would be King one day. I’m also not suggesting he should have been locked in a closet somewhere and taken no part in royal life with his family. But what you know is one thing. Day to day lived experience is another and I would suggest that William and Harry were treated with too much equality for too long a time. Some of that may have been due to the chaotic events the BRF was living through when W and H were children and adolescents. Everyone had bigger things to worry about for many years.
I don’t agree that early differentiation between William and Harry would have been unkind or unfair. I see most of today’s monarchies differentiating between the heir and the other children more than the BRF did with William and Harry at similar ages and it doesn’t seem to be causing major problems. Just because one child takes precedence in official royal life doesn’t mean the other children are loved any less, or are treated less well in private life.
To me it seems much less kind to bring a child up with certain expectations and attitudes that aren’t realistic.
I don't think they did. William, and British heirs in general, have far less prominence as children than let's say what Infanta Leonor does.
I don't think that was ever to blame. William was not the heir. His grandmother, even then you could tell she had incredible health and wouldn't be going anywhere soon.
William and Harry had a lot of people around them to provide the support their parents quite frankly couldn't. There was no need to sperate the boys from eachother. If Harry belated developed issues about being a younger brother I would suggest his marriage played a role. Harry appears, as his ex Cressida seems to think, self obsessed.
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