{"id":294046,"date":"2025-07-26T19:28:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T19:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/294046\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T19:28:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T19:28:16","slug":"heres-who-each-of-the-royal-kids-really-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/294046\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s Who Each of the Royal Kids Really Looks Like"},"content":{"rendered":"

Family resemblances can be crazy sometimes, and if you need proof, just check out the current crop of royal kids. That\u2019s all we could think about when Prince George celebrated his 12th birthday<\/a> on July 22. His parents, Prince William and Princess Kate, continued their tradition of posting portraits of their kids on social media on their big days, and let\u2019s just say it\u2019s clear the young prince wasn\u2019t switched at birth. He\u2019s definitely a full-blooded member of the house of Windsor, and in fact, everyone\u2019s saying the same thing: He\u2019s the spitting image of a certain royal family member.<\/p>\n

And he\u2019s not the only one. Charlotte, Louis and their royal cousins also look like little royal doppelg\u00e4ngers!<\/p>\n

So who does each royal kid look like? Read on to find out\u2014and have an adorable case of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu.<\/p>\n

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Who does Prince George look like?<\/p>\n

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Prince George<\/a> looks like a carbon copy of his dad, Prince William, in the series of snaps and video his parents posted for his birthday. Taken by photographer Josh Shinner earlier this year, George is seen playing with siblings and wearing a white checked shirt and brown vest. And with his hair parted on the side and sporting some distinctive (and very familiar!) cowlicks, plus soulful brown eyes and broad smile, George looks just like his father\u2014albeit, a slightly more brunette version of him\u2014around the same age.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time people have compared the two. It\u2019s been going on pretty much since George was born. When 9-month-old George visited Australia with his parents in 2014, well-wishers would be forgiven for thinking they had traveled back in time to 1983; that\u2019s when a nearly identical 9-month-old Prince William arrived on tour with Diana and Charles.<\/p>\n

George\u2019s outfits also often make that paternal connection even more apparent. Kate has played dress-up doppelg\u00e4ngers in the past, choosing the same clothes for George as Diana did for a young William, including a throwback red-shorts-and-shirt set that a 2-year-old George wore to Charlotte\u2019s christening in 2015. It was almost identical to the outfit worn by 2-year-old Prince William when he visited newborn brother Harry in hospital in September 1984.<\/p>\n

Who does Princess Charlotte look like?<\/p>\n

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With her beaming smile and love of the outdoors, royal watchers soon spotted the similarities between Princess Charlotte<\/a> and the late Queen Elizabeth. And it\u2019s not just that: A side-by-side comparison of the two around the same age shows similar eye and eyebrow shapes, nose structures and hair color. Charlotte, with her long, straight hair, is just the modern version of the vintage original!<\/p>\n

Kate previously revealed that the two had a wonderful bond. In the 2016 documentary Elizabeth at 90: A Family Tribute, the Princess of Wales said the late queen was \u201cthrilled\u201d the family had welcomed a princess. \u201cThe queen was really thrilled that it was a little girl, and I think as soon as we came back here to Kensington, she was one of our first visitors here,\u201d she said. \u201cI think she\u2019s very fond of Charlotte. She\u2019s always watching what she\u2019s up to.\u201d And that\u2019s often being in the great outdoors and surrounded by dogs and horses, just as her great-grandmother once was.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, Charlotte also takes after her adventurous, sporty and gorgeous mother when she was young, as pictures show. You could say she\u2019s the perfect combo of two strong, amazing ladies!<\/p>\n

Who does Prince Louis look like?<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s no doubt which family cheeky Prince Louis<\/a> comes from, as he was the double of big brother George when he was born in 2018, but he\u2019s also giving us lookalike vibes for two of his uncles. Louis looks a lot like a young Prince Edward at the same age. But also, if we\u2019re being honest, he also resembles Prince Andrew when he was a preteen. Let\u2019s hope that\u2019s where the similarities end, though!<\/p>\n

What about Archie and Lilibet?<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a little trickier to compare Prince Archie<\/a>, 6, and Princess Lilibet, 4, as their parents Harry and Meghan have, up to now, kept them out of the limelight. However, when Archie was snapped in South Africa when he was 4 months old, it was clear he looked just like his dad when Harry was a baby. That red hair and wide-eyed expression were unmistakable!<\/p>\n

Harry<\/a> reckons the Spencer gene he inherited from Diana is dominant: It\u2019s responsible for Harry\u2019s red hair, as well as his uncle Earl Spencer\u2019s, and his kids\u2019 hair, of course. \u201cThe Spencer gene is very, very strong. I actually really, genuinely thought at the beginning of my relationship [with Meghan] that should this go the distance and we have kids, there\u2019s no way the ginger gene will stand up to my wife\u2019s genes, but I was wrong,\u201d he said on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.<\/p>\n

As for the lovely Lilibet, when we finally saw a pic of her, we were in for a surprise\u2014as she seems to be the spitting image of Princess Eugenie when she was a tot! In one photo of Harry\u2019s cousin on the slopes of Switzerland in 1992, she looks remarkably similar to Lilibet in her first birthday portrait in 2022. Both also sported the same strawberry blonde hair.<\/p>\n

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