For the first time in British royal family history, Princess Charlotte, 10, has taken on a role that no woman before her has — and it’s breaking a toxic royal family cycle, according to insiders.

The concept of royal families having an “heir and a spare” is not new, but it’s still one that deeply hurts. Just look at Prince Harry’s memoir, which he titled Spare after being called that his whole life. I can’t imagine what it would feel like to not have a purpose other than being a backup in case your older sibling couldn’t take on the family’s responsibilities one day. It would be almost worse to be the second-born sibling but not be a spare because you were born a girl — a centuries-old rule that ended in 2013, putting women in birth order in line for their throne, even if they have younge

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