Poor Ol’ Harry

[eve1974]

Treated like a “spare”

A spare that went to a private school, had private nannies, ski ing hols etc etc

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/prince-harry-treated-spare-royal-115800888.html

[andy-hughes]

It's easy to assume that wealth and privilege make up for emotional deprivation, and of course, they don't.

The Royal Family has been, is, and always will be, deeply dysfunctional, a combination of who they are as people, and what they are as an entity.

No amount of wealth, which is something Harry regards as normal because it is, to him, makes up for it dawning on him that his brother is the chosen one, and he is not - and that has to be a hard burden to bear.

I am responding to the terms of reference in the OP, which appears to suggest that wealth and so on makes up for the emotional gaps in the lives of the princes, it doesn't.

[jourdain2]

It's traditional. There's an 'Heir and a Spare', he's known it all his life. I remember him being reported as commenting, when Prince George was born, that he was relieved as he was now 'off the hook'. He has nothing to complain about. As has been said by others, other orphans had much worse treatment - he had the benefits of security and education and a dad who was desperately trying to safeguard both his sons - if reports were to be believed.

[andy-hughes]

jourdain - // As has been said by others, other orphans had much worse treatment - he had the benefits of security and education and a dad who was desperately trying to safeguard both his sons - if reports were to be believed. //

I have never subscribed to the notion that, because other people are worse off in a situation, it means that other people must automatically be better off.

If the man next door has a broken leg, he is hurting more than i am, but that does not relieve the pain in my toothache one iota.

[bednobs]

hes not an orphan

[youngmafbog]

Oh dear my heart bleeds.

[rowanwitch]

An orphan is someone who has lost one of both parents

No sympathy for him, lost my dad when very young, hardly saw my mother I survived, also married the wrong person, survived that too. They should have left him in the army where he was happy and had a substitute for a family.

[bednobs]

What does one of both parents mean?

[bhg481]

It means the r is too near the f on a keyboard.

[Peter Pedant]

// hes not an orphan//
actually if you look it up
he is
I became an orphan when me aw dad died at 24 - I was surprised but it was true
you only need one parent to die
( and I think the verb works in that sense innit - my brayne has just frozwn)

[rowanwitch]

Or. Have you never mistyped anything one bloomin letter.

[rowanwitch]

Thanks BHG

[Peter Pedant]

// An orphan is someone who has lost one of both parents
yup
did I really read what does one of two parents mean?
well each person has a mummy and a daddy .....

rowan are you still stuck up a blue mountain with no sanitation and red necks hammering at the door of the caravan
or was that always someone else?

[tiggerblue10]

I always understood orphan to mean the loss of both parents.

[rowanwitch]

Someone else, I am stuck in a flat, under tier 2 unable to have visitors, see my family , suffering from what looks like long covid, taking medication that makes me want to strangle idiots.... Pretty normal for AB really

[bednobs]

Rowan I'm not picking at you (btw I mitype all the time) I was genuinely interested in the q and wondered if one of both meant something I didnt know. Like tigger I always understood orphan to mean not having any parents

[bednobs]

And look at that I mistyped mistype :)

[Peter Pedant]

oh rooooooowan
my romantic image of you - a dark forest clearing, wivva winchester, blowing the heads off zombies, bucket in corner. Long frontier dress with grubby hem
( you can see why I dont take Tramadol - or perhaps you can see - - - why I do)

[Peter Pedant]

even the non prescriptive english dictionaries say one suffices

[Peter Pedant]

hair not coiffed or teased this year ...

[1ozzy]

Has Halloween happened yet?