👀 Prince William proves he is ready for the throne — and Harry may not like what it shows

Prince William is choosing the kind of legacy that can’t be bought, which turns another royal’s hustle into something hard to defend.

William and Harry have become poles apart (Image: Getty)

Prince William’s vision for a new style of monarchy merely makes his brother Harry’s half-in-half-out money-making look grubby and shameless. This week it was revealed the Duchy of Cornwall, which provides a private income of over £20m per year to the Prince of Wales, is to sell off 20% of its property over 10 years.

The £500m raised from one of the world’s largest property empires, which spans 19 counties, will be invested in local communities, including affordable housing and environmental projects. William has already been focussed on tackling homelessness so he hopes the duchy will provide an extra 12,000 homes by 2040 – a third affordable – with other funds for rural jobs and a solar panel rollout expansion.

His gesture confirms his dream to reshape the monarchy, which has already seen Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson ‘dethroned’ and could spell curtains for Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie’s remaining royal concessions.

Despite the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, Beatrice and Eugenie continue to have second homes inside King Charles’s palaces despite not being working royals – all thanks to a ‘rental deal’ struck by their father.

Beatrice still has an apartment in St James’s Palace, despite her main home being in the Cotswolds, while Eugenie has the three-bedroom Ivy Cottage at Kensington Palace – despite spending most of her family time in Portugal.

In the duchy’s new strategy, there will be a greater emphasis on five areas where it is a landowner: Bath, Cornwall, Dartmoor, Isles of Scilly and Kennington in south London.

But William’s plans to be “more than” just a traditional landowner by “prioritising stuff that’s going to make people’s lives, living in those areas, better,” negatively shine a spotlight on his younger brother.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle fled the UK in 2020 after the late Queen Elizabeth II refused their ‘half-in-half-out’ working royal/commercial money-making plans.

Since then Harry and Meghan have thrown themselves into a zealous – to the point of obsessive – cycle of shameless commercialism.

They repeatedly revealed secrets and private conversations about the Royal Family in books, TV interviews and documentary series for personal gain.

‘Non-working Royals’ on tour in Australia (Image: Getty)

True, their Archewell Foundation – now known by the snappy moniker ‘Archewell Philanthropies’ – gives a few million quid a year to charity.

But that’s chicken feed compared to the loot they have raked in over the last six years, with their Netflix deal worth £100m alone, and Harry’s autobiography ‘Spare’ coining in more than £25m.

Yet with TV deals crumbling for the Sussexes – Netflix’s ‘With Love, Meghan’ show has been axed, and her ‘As Ever’ brand is struggling to shift her $64 candles and $12 jars of jam – they have needed a new way of funding their millionaire lifestyle.

Cue the start of their recent faux ‘royal tours,’ first of Jordan and then Australia as they look to blend charity work, meeting dignitaries and other things working royals would do, with after-dinner speeches and selling stuff.

So while Harry has sold his family down the river to fund his celeb lifestyle, William is looking to sell his family inheritance to fund good causes.

The brothers really are chalk and cheese.