Prince Harry chastised the media for elevating his feud with the Royal Family beyond the "commonest tragedies of human nature."
Peggy Drexler, a CNN writer, made this assertion in a recent op-ed essay.
"Where Harry may have previously evoked some pity for having weathered a lifetime of being the "spare" — the lesser of the two brothers, now fifth in line for the throne (coming in after his 7-year-old niece, Princess Charlotte — empathy is running short," she cautions.
"Harry and Meghan left the royal family amid charges that they chose a quiet existence as "normal people," not desiring the public attention that came with being royals, including becoming tabloid fodder. 'I want a family,' Harry said in an extract from a future interview with ITV. "It's not an institution."
"Yet here they are, completely and eagerly producing that feed. And it is fodder."
"Competition between youngsters is widespread, and sibling rivalry between brothers is much more so, especially when there are only two of them," the author stated.
"Most aren't born into households with defined hierarchies that help to remind them of their specific place," says the author. However, brotherly strife has endured throughout history, creating innumerable works of art in all genres (most of them tragedies). Harry is not unique; his is one of the most recurrent tragedies of human nature."