Prince Harry must 'learn to be a spare' claims Robert Lacey

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Robert Lacey told Today Australia that Queen Elizabeth II coached Prince William on how to behave like a future king. The royal historian added that Prince Harry must learn on his own how to behave as a spare member of the Royal Family. 

Mr Lacey said: “Harry’s not talking to his brother, he’s scarcely talking to his father.

“The only blessing of the past year is that he has his very close relationship to the Queen who sort of stepped in as a stepmother after the death of Diana.

“After all Camilla could make no claim to be a stepmother.

“The Queen [was] there, we’re looking at her she’s played two roles she’s coached young William as a future king.

“One of the problems is there isn’t a course in being a spare in the British Monarchy.

“Harry’s problem is he’s going to learn to be a spare.”

He continued: “So all that’s left is he’s closest to the Queen the fact he can pick up the phone, he can’t quite talk to her because she doesn’t walk around with a mobile but the operators put him through.

“And that’s the hope for the future that between grandmother and grandson there’ll be some sort of rapprochement worked out.”

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Mr Lacey previously told the Royally Obsessed podcast that Prince Harry and the Duke of Cambridge started life as co-stars but as the brothers got older their paths diverged and the Duke of Sussex began to resent his role as spare in the monarchy.

The royal historian said: “Harry fell into the same trap as the spares before him.

“There is in Britain the tradition of the heir and the spare.

“To start with in life they are co-stars, both of them idolised by the nation and the world.

“As early as I say in their childhoods, they became aware of it.”

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Mr Lacey added: “Prince William derived a lot of strength from the idea that he would be king, and have great responsibility.

“That kept him going, while Harry went the other way from around the age of four.

“Once Harry was misbehaving in the back of a car and his nanny told him to shape up.

“Harry responded by saying he didn’t need to shape up because he would not be king.

“By their teens, Harry is coming to resent this typecasting.” 

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