But I am not entirely sure now that William & Hazzard were close, certainly mucho bonhomie & bantz to smooth their shared pathway. But there do seem to have been tensions around William paying a price for being first born (golden boy but in a golden cage) & Hazza sulking long form.
William is slowly sliding into taking greater, scrutinised responsibilities, yet his brother just a few years younger is still faffing about with his abandoned projects, half-baked projects & ghastly first wife. Must grate a bit, all the self-indulgent hoo-hah since MM turned up.
I think at one point they were truly close. There are stories of Harry's housemaster at Eton getting William to spend the night in Harry's room when he first started because he was crying over their Mum and needed his brother. But I think they were always different temperaments and personalities.
The women they dated were very different too.
And of course their lives were always on different paths eventually.
But Harry himself admitted a few years ago that "no one wants to be King" (and he got in trouble for it). He's called his family trapped. He doesn't want it but he wants the perks without doing the job.
He had some advantages over William
- Many of his
crappy escapades got dismissed as "Lad Harry having fun".
- William would not have been able to marry Meghan, or possibly even Chelsy with her father's dubious political connections
-William would not have been able to piss off to California if he felt like it without causing chaos.
-William was not allowed to go to Iraq or Afghanistan
-Harry could have made the Army is actual career
-Harry can raise his kids however he likes
There are advantages and disadvantages to being both the heir and spare.