Yahoo Lifestyle Princess Charlotte Has Apparently Inherited This ‘Brilliant Ability’ from Her Great-Grandmother Queen Elizabeth
This shared talent isn’t where the similarities end for the pair, who bear an uncanny resemblance to one another
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Princess Charlotte of Wales watches an RAF flypast from the balcony of Buckingham Palace after attending Trooping the Colour on June 15, 2024 in London, England and Queen Elizabeth II attends an Armed Forces Act of Loyalty Parade in the gardens of the Palace of Holyroodhouse on June 28, 2022 in Edinburgh, ScotlandPrincess Charlotte and Queen Elizabeth share even more in common than resembling one another!
Princess Charlotte, 9, not only shares a talent with her grandmother, Princess Diana — dance was a passion of the late Princess of Wales’, and is a current hobby of Charlotte’s — but Charlotte also shares a talent with her late great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth. Like the late monarch before her, Princess Charlotte can mimic well-known figures, royal author Phil Dampier told Hello!.
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Princess Charlotte of Wales court-side of Centre Court during the men's final on day fourteen of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 14, 2024 in London, England“I’m told Charlotte has also inherited from the late Queen a brilliant ability to mimic prominent figures,” Dampier said. “That should come in handy at Christmas when the royals gather in the evening at Sandringham to play charades.”
“Queen Elizabeth used to have her family in stitches with her impersonations of politicians, including U.S. presidents and former Russian leader Boris Yeltsin,” he continued.
Fellow royal author Gyles Brandreth said on Hello!’s A Right Royal Podcast that Queen Elizabeth “could do regional accents from all over the country.”
As teenagers, then-Princess Elizabeth and her younger sister Princess Margaret performed in pantomime plays, a slapstick-style show that is a family tradition around Christmas in Britain. She also acted on stage in her youth, including in a 1944 staging of Old Mother Red Riding Boots.
Related: Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret's Costumes from Wartime Christmas Plays Are Going on Display
In late 2021 and early 2022, six surviving costumes worn by Elizabeth and Margaret from 1941 to 1944 in pantomimes put on to raise money for the Royal Household Wool Fund — which supplied knitting wool to make comforters for soldiers — went on display at Windsor Castle. The pieces included outfits from an Aladdin pantomime, which saw the future monarch play the titular role.
Also like Queen Elizabeth, Princess Charlotte displays a deep sense of maturity, Dampier said.
“Winston Churchill once said of the late Queen Elizabeth when she was a child that he had never seen such maturity in someone so young, and Charlotte seems to have inherited that trait from her great-grandmother, to whom she bears an uncanny resemblance,” he said.
He added, “Charlotte seems to have an inner strength which may one day become invaluable, as she is third in line to the throne.”
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Princess Charlotte of Wales and Catherine, Princess of Wales court-side of Centre Court during the men's final on day fourteen of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 14, 2024 in London, EnglandCan't get enough of PEOPLE's Royals coverage? Sign up for our free Royals newsletter to get the latest updates on Kate Middleton, Meghan Markle and more!
Charlotte was by her mother Kate Middleton’s side this summer as the Princess of Wales, 42, made a triumphant return to public duty following her March 22 announcement that she had been diagnosed with cancer. At June’s Trooping the Colour — Kate’s first public appearance since announcing her diagnosis — Charlotte protectively watched over her mother, and was by her side again in July at Wimbledon, along with Pippa Middleton.
“I'm told that, although the Princess of Wales has obviously been looking after her children during her cancer treatment and reassuring them she is getting better, Charlotte has been a great source of strength to her,” Dampier said.
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