"Only William counted, Harry was frustrated": does Prince Charles have a favorite son?
For several years, Prince Harry would have nourished a form of frustration vis-à-vis his brother, Prince William, but also his father, Prince Charles, who had to prepare his eldest for his future duties as king.
I really feel abandoned because he's been through comparable things. He knows the suffering this causes. Archie is his grandson. I would always love him but there were deep wounds. "These few sentences uttered during her famous interview with Oprah Winfrey, in addition to the accusations of racism and the lack of support for the monarchy mentioned by Meghan Markle, ended up create a distance between Prince Harry and his father, Prince Charles. Being apart in the monarchy, himself a lover of scandals in his early youth, the Duke of Sussex took a different path from the Prince of Wales and his brother, Prince William, and lets it be known.But does this assumed desertion have deeper origins than those asserted?
As we know, Harry did not support the media treatment reserved for his wife, but that would not be the only reason. The young man would have suffered not to have been considered in the same way as his elder. "After Diana's death, Charles took care of his two boys much more than before. He was sensitive to their distress. (...) He was an attentive father, but that was not enough for him. Harry who was born too late and occupies a remote place in the order of succession. Suddenly, only William - who had to be trained for his future role as king - counted. Harry was frustrated, "analyzes the journalist and author of Charles, King of England, Michel Faure, in the columns of Gala, on newsstands this Thursday, March 18.
William and Harry, treated differently
Would Prince Charles have preferred Prince William to his younger brother? Hard to say. If the heir to the throne and his eldest have displayed an unwavering bond since Harry's departure, nothing previously indicated any preference. Still, if Charles wanted to preserve his two children after the death of their mother, other people in the royal entourage made sure to treat the two boys in a different way. Elizabeth II, yet close to Harry, regularly invited Prince William "to attend royalty classes when he was in Eton (the college was in Windsor - Editor's note) and she was at Windsor Castle", revealed the journalist specialist Richard Kay, last July, in the documentary Prince Harry: The Troubled Prince.
This difference in consideration was also present in the Queen Mother, who straddles monarchical traditions. "The late Queen Mother always invited Prince William for tea to talk to him about his future, and did not invite Prince Harry," said Richard Kay. "(She) always made sure Prince William was seated in a prominent seat next to her, whereas Harry never was." Forced to be an eternal second, Prince Harry had no choice but to find a place on his own. "The role of Prince William has always been defined. (...) Harry, like all spare parts in the royal family historically, had to find a role on his own," said Katie Nicholl, royalty journalist for Vanity Fair. A bastard status which had a strong impact on Harry's departure from British royalty.
