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How Prince Harry's role in the Royal Family shifted dramatically with '19 minutes of pain'

Prince Harry has not seen eye to eye with his brother Prince William for years, but one event is said to have made it clear that he had truly "slid down the Royal pecking order"

While William and Kate were seated prominently in the front row alongside then-Prince Charles and Camilla, Harry and Meghan were positioned further away, next to cousins Princess Eugenie and Beatrice and their spouses Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi and Jack Brooksbank. Richard Kay, writing for the Mail, suggested that the seating arrangement highlighted the "public reality of Harry's slide down the royal pecking order" before labelling Charles, Camilla, William and Kate as the "real stars of the show." "And although spared the indignity of sharing the coach that brought a clutch of minor royals who similarly do not do official duties, such as Princess Michael of Kent's son Lord Frederick Windsor, they were only just behind them."

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