Spare: Prince Harry is Just The Next Prince in a Long Line of Second Sons

Prince Harry examines his life from his perspective as “the spare.”

File:Prince Harry arrives at the UK-Africa Investment Summit in London 20 January 2020 (49413820711).jpg: DFID — UK Department for International Developmentderivative work: Minerva97, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

“The Heir and the Spare.” Many royal brothers shared this neatly summed up relationship. It may seem demeaning to the second son, but having heirs was vital to secure realms. It was even more important in the bygone eras when infant mortality was high, and you never knew…