Everyone knows Maekar is the youngest of the king's four sons, and therefore feels a lot of pressure, having to keep up with his elder siblings — especially with Baelor, obviously, since they are both regarded as cut out for warfare from the beginning. But Maekar is also in a position where, essentially, less is expected and demanded of him than of his brothers — simply because he's the youngest, and he's not supposed to be the heir. No one in their right mind would think he would ever become king — for this to be a possibility, something crazy would have to happen. So, Maekar is also very likely to be especially privileged and even pampered, right?
Maekar's paradox is that, by the looks of it, he's fucking both. He carries the impossible weight of consciously being "the spare" for Baelor — at first keeping up with him, then earning his position as a Targaryen warlord, then taking the blows so that Baelor doesn't have to, and so on. But — even despite his harsh personality — he's also the darling of the family (or at least a part of it), and simply has to have the best of everything. Oftentimes, he can even have some luxuries denied to Baelor — like marrying a girl he genuinely likes, for example. And he develops a strong sense of entitlement which he later, for the most part inadvertently, passes on to Aerion, Daeron, and, to a degree, Egg.
At least partially, it comes from Baelor. Generosity and kindness come naturally to Baelor, and he will generally bend over backwards for the people he loves. Maekar occupying a special place in his heart would reinforce Maekar's love for getting special treatment — particularly from Baelor — further still. The situation where he gets to have his perfect elder brother, the prince of the realm, all to himself (the wives and the children get left out of the equation, simply because they kinda belong to a different world) would be the peak of it.
And this is why at Ashford, when it comes to the trial of seven, Maekar is incensed not only because of the whole situation, but also because Baelor has suddenly prioritised the well-being of some guy he has literally just met over his own. Though it is never stated explicitly, the obvious offence Maekar took likely made him fight even more fiercely than he could have (that, and the perceived threat to Aerion's life, of course). And the rest just happened.
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