@curlywurlytwirly
Harry has the huge advantage of not being in line to the throne. As boys and young men, both were largely spared any real duties. As they get older, William’s choices are going to diminish, and Harry’s won’t. They’ll walk down different paths. Remains to be seen how good a brother Harry will be to William. Perhaps being close as boys and young men will count for something.
As for the Middletons - well, whatever they think, their son-in-law is the future king. Their daughter will be queen. They may try to gently set him right, if asked, but the role and the person are difficult to separate. You have to be really, really tight and secure to put a monarch in his/her place. That doesn’t seem the case with William, who sees in the Middletons a regular nuclear family which he wants a slice of for himself and his children. But I don’t see him turning to them for advice on being king or making difficult decisions!
Must be so lonely. Honestly, I’d never do it (setting aside the immorality of the immense wealth and what the monarchy stands for, for a moment). Kate has to be a woman of extremely modest personal ambition (I mean in terms of things she achieves off her own bat) with a real fondness for family life and also huge vanity. Very self-effacing, willing to be part of someone else. She’d have to be to willingly go into a life of boring duty, procreation, knowing your place at all times, never stepping out of line. Love for William can’t possibly explain all that, and her folks have enough money for her to have had a life like Pippa’s. It had to have been the carrot of future Queen of England, being in the history books. Why else would you do it?