Prince Harry, William and Charles' Head-to-Head Had Surprising Result

King Charles III beat Prince William and Prince Harry to the front page of Britain's newspapers in a rare example of the royal father drawing the spotlight from his sons.

Prince William's biggest project, the Earthshot Prize, and Prince Harry's support for veterans made little impact on the covers of the country's newspapers, crowded out by Charles' first King's Speech to Parliament.

Prince Harry told his Netflix documentary, Harry & Meghan that his family is fiercely competitive over media attention. And it has historically been exceptionally rare for Charles to be the victor when the trio go head-to-head.

Even during the days of his first marriage, Princess Diana said Charles was jealous because she got more attention from the public, including during a tour of Australia in 1983. Forty years later and newly king, Charles appears to finally have the platform from which to sometimes steal the spotlight away from others.

Charles made a picture on the front page of the Daily Mirror, Daily Telegraph, The Times, Daily Express, i, Financial Times and Metro.

One reason for the king's success may well partly be that his speech at the State Opening of Parliament straddles the worlds of royalty and politics as he reads out the government's legislative agenda for the coming year.

However, it remains a sign that his new status has brought with it media interest that he sometimes struggled to secure before.

Meanwhile, Prince William had to make to do with a strapline across the top of the Telegraph splash and little else on the front pages to show for the Earthshot ceremony that was months in the planning, took him halfway around the world to Singapore, and drew in stars including Cate Blanchett, Hannah Waddingham and Sterling K. Brown.

The Prince of Wales, however, followed up the environmental awards ceremony on Wednesday with a major interview that risked ruffling feathers at Buckingham Palace given to the select journalists who traveled to Singapore.

His comments, which did not break until morning the following day in the United Kingdom, sparked headlines like "Prince William: I want to go a step further than my family by bringing change" on the Telegraph website.

William said: "I care about so many things, and previously the family have been very much spotlighting brilliantly and going round and highlighting lots—I want to go a step further. I want to actually bring change, and I want to bring people to the table who can do the change if I can't do it.

"I've been in the homelessness sector for a long time now," he continued, "and so rather than just being patron, I want to do more. I want to actually build the homes, I want to provide them with the mental support, all the employment and the education they might need. So it's all these wraparound services, it's kind of going deeper and longer than it is the case of just having loads of causes that you sort of turn up and keep an eye on."

Suffice to say, had Harry made these comments, he would have been roundly set upon by the British media for taking a swipe at generations of royal work, including by the late Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.

For his part, the Duke of Sussex also released new work on Tuesday in the form of a video he recorded for veterans comedy show Stand Up for Heroes, put on by the Bob Woodruff Foundation and the New York Comedy Festival.

In the light-hearted sketch, Harry made jokes about his ginger hair and having a reiki healer: "I was deeply honored when Bob asked me to debut my stand-up act with you all tonight. I was so relieved to be invited back, but then I started to question whether his invite for me to actually do stand-up was, in fact, his idea of a joke.

"Either way, due to the shockingly low representations of gingers last year and out of respect for my fellow endangered species, here I am reporting for duty."

"As someone who never gets scrutinized," he continued, "I haven't even had to prepare much. I have been working on this particular act for quite some time, and everyone I know tells me it's perfect... these are people like my finance manager, my lawyer, and of course, my reiki healer."

Harry did not make the front pages but Britain's newspapers, though he got plenty of coverage online.

Jack Royston is chief royal correspondent for Newsweek, based in London. You can find him on X, formerly Twitter, at @jack_royston and read his stories on Newsweek's The Royals Facebook page.

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