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By: Annemarie Göbbel
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Princess Victoria of Hesse would be 160 years old today.
King Charles III
is a spitting image of his paternal great-grandmother.
Norfolk – It could have been noticed long ago.
But according to mirror.co.uk
, the fact that King Charles (75) has a doppelganger was
only discovered by a royal fan who noticed the interesting past of Victoria of Hesse and the Rhine (87, † 1950) and the similarity to the British monarch came across and shared with the world with a posting on X.
Even for a relative, the resemblance cannot be overlooked.
Only an X user noticed the resemblance between the British King Charles and his great-grandmother
User Yvette Henson used
X
(formerly
) to share pictures of the royal alongside Princess Victoria.
In her post, published before Charles became king, she wrote: "It is amazing how much Prince Charles is so fond of his great-grandmother (Prince Philip's grandmother), Princess Victoria of Hesse and later of the Rhine, Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven. similar.”
Princess Victoria was born on Easter Sunday 1863 at Windsor Castle in the presence of her grandmother Queen Victoria (81, † 1901) and baptized a few weeks later.
The princess later married Prince Louis of Battenberg (67, † 1921). They had four children together, including Princess Alice (84, † 1969), the mother of Prince Philip (99, † 2021), the father King Charles III.
Despite the royal lookalike, Queen Elizabeth II reportedly joked about Charles' ears
King Charles and his great-grandmother Princess Victoria of Hesse and Rhine (photomontage).
© H. Tschanz-Hofmann/Imago & Florian Gaertner/Imago
During World War I, the Battenbergs abandoned their German-sounding name in favor of a British-sounding name: Mountbatten.
It is the result of translating her name from German into English.
Despite his considerable family tree, King Charles was not safe from the famous jokes of his mother Queen Elizabeth II (96, † 2022).
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As the site
MyLondon.news
reports, the king's protruding ears are said to have been the subject of a long-standing joke in the Windsor family.
Apparently the Queen even made fun of her heir to the throne's ears when his son Prince William (41) was born: "Thank God he doesn't have ears like his father," the Queen is said to have joked.
As a sensitive person, the king kept to himself whether he suffered as a result.
However, biographer Ingrid Seward writes that the current king longed for his mother's hugs.
Sources used:
mirror.co.uk, mylondon.com, X (formerly Twitter), ohmymag.co.uk