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Marriage.
Children.
Continuity.
He has become the figure expected eventually to inherit not only the crown but responsibility for preserving the monarchy itself.
He can question what the institution demanded from his childhood while simultaneously preparing to lead that same institution.
He can defend the monarchy while recognizing the emotional price his own family has paid to sustain it.
And then there is Harry.
Thousands of miles away, he has spent years speaking far more openly about grief, resentment, family conflict, and the psychological consequences of royal life.
The resulting rupture has affected almost every major relationship around him.
With his father.
With the wider institution.
California is far from London.
It is not far enough to escape memory.
The same funeral procession belongs to both brothers.
The same mother is missing from both their lives.
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