Is Prince William more tortured than Prince Harry?

He suffered from being the eternal “number 2”. In January, Prince Harry published his memoirs The substitute, where he lamented that he was considered his older brother’s “shadow”, a strange “support”, “his plan B”. But what if Prince William actually suffered even more than his younger brother? At least this is the hypothesis formulated in season 6 The crown , the second part of which is available on Netflix from Thursday, December 14. Episodes that focus on heir anxiety.

Pressures from all sides

In Season 6 Episode 4, which focuses on Lady Diana’s death, the future Prince of Wales has the last exchange with his mother. The one who once again takes refuge in Balmoral Heights, stunned, after the death of a princess in a tragic car accident. She is also the one who will have to answer to the investigators as part of the investigation into the death of the ex-wife of Prince Charles (Dominic West). And if the royal family meets in London after this disappearance, it is mainly because of the concern of Prince William (Rufus Campa). Her younger brother (played by Fflin Edwards), who is too young to understand what this drama involves, is almost absent in this first part of the season.

The anger and disappointment of his elders are most noticeable. In particular, we see William listening behind the door as his father insists that the young man must follow his mother’s coffin in front of the world for her official funeral. All with the goal of seeing him assume the duties of heir to the throne. Since then, the dissatisfaction of the 15-year-old continued to grow.

In the following episode, Prince William (played by Ed McVeigh in this second installment) must deal with the pain of notoriety. understand the enthusiasm he arouses among a large number of young women who write him many letters, letters and challenge him. even to the benches of his faculty, St. Andrews. To the extent that the show imagines an argument between the future king, his girlfriend at the time, and Kate Middleton (Meg Bellamy), both of whom are scandalized that he abruptly rejects a student who comes to ask for his autograph. “You have no idea what it’s like to live so mindfully,” she replies.

Reason and feelings

This season, Prince Harry, played by Luther Ford, seems surprisingly conciliatory, content to encourage his brother to drown his sorrows in champagne, parties and romance. Prince William is portrayed as somber, brooding, silent in this second round of episodes. But also very lonely, misunderstood, sometimes confused and, above all, angry. As evidenced by the tense conversation with his father, where he expresses all his displeasure. “I hate the press and the crowd. You tell us that we will be alone, and you put us in front of people we hate.

In another discussion, she told Prince Charles: “If he (Lady Diana, Editor’s Note) was not safe with us, it was your fault. You pushed him into their arms (Al-Fayed’s them, editor’s note) making him so unhappy. Loving someone else.” And if in real life the tabloids were quick to report that Prince Harry hates his No. 2 position, in the series, Prince William sometimes seems to envy it. “I know it’s hard to have too much freedom, but you’d think I wouldn’t want it from time to time if I wasn’t sensible. To be the likable rebel?” he teases in episode 9.

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“Authoritative” temperament

No one knows if these exchanges actually took place. What we do know, however, is that Prince William actually spoke of the day he walked behind his mother’s coffin as “one of the hardest things” he had ever done in his life. He further emphasized his bewilderment in the documentary Diana, 7 days , which was broadcast by the BBC in 2017, to the emotion he welcomed members of the public. “I didn’t understand why everyone wanted to cry so hard and show so much emotion when these people didn’t really know our mother,” she said.

And if the media has long emphasized Prince Harry’s hot-blooded character, then the angry temperament of Prince William highlighted in these episodes would also be valid. “Being the future sovereign, he learned to put on the costume, to play this comedy, to hide his true nature, including his very domineering persona,” declared historian Robert Lacy. Madame Figaro in 2021

Two arguments

Comments Illustrated by Two Controversies Mentioned by the Duke of Sussex in his Memoirs. In particular, he tells that one day Prince William called Meghan Markle “difficult”, “rough” and “abrasive”. Then the voices between the two brothers would rise and the insults would flow. Apparently, the conflict took a serious turn when the two brothers clashed. “[William] “grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace and knocked me to the ground,” explains Prince Harry. “I landed on a dog bowl and it broke under my back, the pieces gave me cuts.” An incident that would leave him with “scratches and bruises”.

In another segment, she claims her senior “fell on top of her” and “grabbed her shirt” during a tense exchange at Frogmore Cottage after Prince Philip’s funeral. Another incident involved the Prince of Wales and his wife tricking him into wearing a Nazi costume on Halloween when he was 20 years old. Anecdotes that did not tarnish Prince William’s popularity. In March, the latter appeared as the most popular member of the royal family as a result of a YouGov survey. Despite the troubled past, the British believe in the bright future of their future sovereign.