Do Number Twos Try Harder?
Like any parents, Prince Charles and Princess Diana no doubt have every intention of treating their two sons even-handedly, without playing favorites. Successful as they may be at that, however, there is the hard fact of primogeniture: William probably will be king someday, and Harry probably will not. Prince Henry may deal serenely with his fate as an also-born. Some of his predecessors in that role have not. Princess Anne, who was second in line to older brother Charles until brother Andrew came along, threw a royal fit when she was barred from traveling to her mother’s coronation in the same car as Charles—and, since then, arrogant behavior has become Anne’s trademark. Andrew, who was second to Charles until William’s birth, was equally willful. As a child he tobogganed down a Buckingham Palace staircase on a silver tray and occasionally tied the palace guardsmen’s bootlaces together. As an adult, “Randy Andy” has made headlines for his picaresque exploits as a lady-killer. And then
