Regular readers of The Royalist will not be surprised by this week’s revelation that the most critical sinew of tension in the British royal family is not between Charles and Harry, but between Charles and William.

That father-son conflict has, behind the scenes, driven many of the dramas of the past few years, though the press has been generally reluctant to spell it out.

Tina Brown pushed it into the open this week, writing on Substack that Charles is “currently less irritated with the prodigal Harry than he is with his elder son and heir. Somehow, William’s parenting dedication always seems couched as a tacit criticism of the king’s own paternal deficiencies. And after five confirmed family vacations in the past seven months, William’s first-week-back diary pulsated with two outings:

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