Not being first in the line of succession to the British throne comes with its own struggles:
“Does that mean that you will have to be the next queen?”However, Margaret grew jealous of the attention paid to her older sister. “She would always remain resentful that her older sister received a better education,” Bedell Smith writes in“She had asked to join Lilibet’s tutorials with Henry Marten, but was told by the tutor, ‘It is not necessary for you.’”
Change they did. “Then there was the whole Peter Townsend affair, and the queen was persuaded by her advisers to tell her sister she couldn’t marry him,” says royal author and commentator“Very difficult for her, and I think the queen probably felt she had scuppered her sister’s chance of happiness. Margaret started behaving badly and imperiously and because of the guilt, her behavior went largely unchallenged.
And it’s said that inherent tensions between the heir, spare, and the throne remain. “In royal families, the heir can never help wondering whether his ‘spare’ is not secretly feeling that ‘he wants to be me,’”In fact, according to Cawthorne, during the early 1990s, Prince Andrew engaged in some medieval-type plotting against his brother Charles, which helped sour the brothers’ already fraught relationship.
But for Princess Diana, the difference between the heir and the spare was all too apparent. She was delighted that Prince William was remarkably protective of his baby brother, Harry, and encouraged the two of them to forge a bond as brothers first, royals second. Lacey“Royal firstborns may get all the glory,” said Diana in one interview, ”but second-borns enjoy more freedom. Only when Harry is a lot older will he realise how lucky he is not to have been the eldest.
According to Lacey, Harry was also inspired by another spare, Prince Seeiso of Lesotho, who had found purpose working with children and AIDS patients. The two founded the charity Sentebale in 2006.
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