Royal fans have pointed out the family resemblance between Princess Charlotte and her father Prince William as she marks her 10th birthday.
Showing a windswept and camo-clad Princess during a hike in Cumbria earlier this year, a photo of the young royal, which was taken by her mother Kate, was shared by Kensington Palace.
In the picture Charlotte is sporting a £37 Jack Pyke children’s ‘Evolution Camo’ jacket, and a rucksack strapped to her back, with a pair of dark blue jeans.
Grinning at the camera, her hair is swept messily back in a loose ponytail and she seems carefree as she laughs while sat down in a patch of grass.
Previous birthday portraits have shown Charlotte largely at home wearing more formal dress, skirts and jumpers but this item she was snapped in the great outdoors.
And while many royal fans noticed the change in style from the more formal dresses, skirts and jumpers usually worn in the portraits taken at the Wales’s home, others have noticed something else.
Royal fans flocked to social media to share that they think Princess Charlotte has another royal lookalike – her father Prince William.
Fans of the family wrote on X underneath the official portrait: ‘Wow she really looks like her old man’, and ‘Wow! She is 100 per cent William when he was her age! Incredible. Happy birthday Princess Charlotte’.
Others said: ‘Princess Charlotte is the female version of young Prince William.
Another wrote: ‘Papa William’s mini me forever’, while one fan commented, ‘Happy birthday Princess Charlotte! So much like her dad’.
One fan said: ‘Princess Charlotte is just divine and beautiful. She’s the image of William’, and other pointed out the similarity to her mother, Kate as well, commenting, ‘She is the spitting image of Prince William with Catherine’s hair’.
Others commented: ‘Happy Birthday to Princess Charlotte! She bears a striking resemblance to William – definitely daddy’s girl!’, and ‘Prince William really said copy and paste’.
Others illustrated the similarities with pictures of the father and daughter side by side, captioning their posts: ‘Princess Charlotte really is her dad’s twin! So cute’.
One person noticed a likeness between the young princess and her grandmother Princess Diana, writing: ‘Happy Birthday to Princess Charlotte who looks so much like her dad, Prince William, who looks like his mother Princess Diana’.
And it wasn’t just their faces that looked similar but also the khaki attire Charlotte sported for the snap.
Prince William was also photographed wearing army-style uniform when he was younger and in one sweet snap was seen posing in the army uniform of the Parachute Regiment of the British Army and saluting.
In anther family snap he was seen in khaki uniform once again, sat on a step with his brother Prince Harry.
Charlotte is third in line to the throne and set, one day, to be Princess Royal, following in the footsteps of her great aunt, Princess Anne – and many think she would be a natural successor to the role.
Because of changes in 2013 to the rules concerning the order of succession that mean male heirs are no longer prioritised above female heirs, Charlotte, born in 2015, became the first British princess to rank above a younger brother.
Her full name is Charlotte Elizabeth Diana and she was born in the Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, London, at 8.34am on May 2, 2015, weighing a very healthy 8lb 3oz.
The princess attends the co-educational private Lambrook School near Ascot in Berkshire with her siblings, but sources have previously told the Mail that her parents have an eye on Catherine’s old boarding school, Marlborough, for her in the future.
She has already won the hearts of fans for her elegant deportment in public, and is often seen in charge of her brothers, particularly little Louis, at big family events.
It is anticipated that all three will be seen at Monday’s VE Day 80 celebrations.
Today’s photo marks a return to the children’s portraits being taken by Kate, a keen amateur photographer who regularly takes images of her children to mark official occasions.
