Why Harry isn't the first person to have the predicament of being the royal understudy.
"It's a non-position," says royal expert Professor Pauline Maclaran, from the Centre for the Study of Modern Monarchy, Royal Holloway, University of London.A life of pointless luxury might have its decadent charms, but it also carries a heavy risk of unfulfillment and lack of direction.
Mr Owens says that Princess Margaret, younger sister to the late Queen Elizabeth II, is an example of the pressures put upon such siblings, in a way that remains relevant to the problems raised by Prince Harry. "More marginal royals are seen as fair game. The dignity accorded those in direct line is not afforded to those younger royals," he says.Image source,Prince Andrew looks at messages and floral tributes for his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, September 2022
His father, George V, had been another second son who came to the throne. His older brother had died at the age of 28 in an outbreak of flu in 1892. There are also historical templates for the younger royal being cast in a negative light, accused of dissolute and disreputable or as a rival threatening to undermine the authority of the elder.
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