PRINCESS Diana once said, “Royal firstborns may get all the glory, but secondborns enjoy more freedom.
“When Harry is a lot older, he’ll realise how lucky he is not to have been the eldest.” But oh, how hollow those words ring now. Harry has expressed many sentiments in his bombshell memoir, Spare, but feeling lucky about his position in the birth order isn’t one of them.
William was always the golden boy and Harry the wingman. “I was brought into the world in case something happened to Willy,” he writes. “I was summoned to provide back-up, distraction, diversion and, if necessary, a spare part.”
And he’s by no means the first royal
