Princess Charlotte looks just like the Queen in these new photos

The resemblance is uncanny.
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Rachel Thompson
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Princess Charlotte is celebrating her fourth birthday and that means one thing: new photos!

Interestingly, in the latest dispatch of photos of the royal kids, Princess Charlotte bears a striking resemblance to her great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.

Three photos were taken by the Duchess of Cambridge in April at Kensington Palace and their residence in Norfolk.

If, by now, you haven't clocked the uncanny resemblance, here are some archive photographs of Queen Elizabeth II to jog your memory.

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Princess Elizabeth riding her tricycle in a park in 1935. Credit: Keystone/Getty Images
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Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret at the Royal Lodge, Windsor, in July 1946. Credit: Lisa Sheridan/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Happy Birthday, Princess Charlotte.

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Rachel Thompson
Features Editor

Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.

A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.

Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.

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