Today, they are children and teenagers. But they carry a burden shared by few others because in due course they will be on the throne of their respective nations.
As he turns 20, Prince Gabriel of Belgium can reflect that, in his own modest way, he is a part of history. For in any previous generation, Gabriel would have been king.
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