Lady Louise Windsor bears striking resemblance to iconic royal family member


The daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh looks to much like this senior member of the royal family - we are doing a double take


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She may be living her best post-grad life under the radar, but Lady Louise Windsor still managed to leave us doing a double take.

As the St Andrew's alumnae, 22, settle into post-university life, we couldn't help but reminisce over sweet childhood photographs of the young royal - and this one snap left us utterly shocked!

The throwback photo of the equestrian saw her at age six, looking nothing short of cherubic, as she wore a little blue summer dress, a navy blue Barbour quilted jacket, and an adorable bandana with matching pink loafers.

The sweet snap was taken during a family holiday in August 2010 as she left the Hebridean Princess cruise ship in Scrabster, Scotland.

The photograph looked uncannily similar to one of Lady Louise's grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, who sadly died in 2022.

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In the black-and-white photo of the future Queen, Elizabeth was four and looked so much like Louise.

Dressed in a pretty ruffled party dress and silky ballet slippers, the tiny royal had the same cherubic cheeks and curly blonde hair as her future granddaughter - just adorable!

Royal doppelgangers

Elizabeth and Louise aren't the only royal pair who have left us doing a double take.

Princess Beatrice is the image of her great-great-great-great grandmother, Queen Victoria. Whilst royal fans have previously drawn this conclusion from candid snaps of the mother-of-one, there is one moment in particular where their resemblance is uncanny. 

While filming The Young Victoria back in 2007, Princess Beatrice was photographed between takes in full 19th-century attire - wearing an off-the-shoulder ballgown with her hair parted in the center and swept into a classic updo. 

Princess Beatrice looks so much like a young Queen Victoria
Princess Beatrice looks so much like a young Queen Victoria

The image of the redhead royal bears an astonishing resemblance to an 1845 portrait of her ancestor by Alexander Melville. Positioned side-by-side, sharing the exact same hairstyle, the two look nearly identical despite being separated by four generations.

In 2019, Princess Beatrice's sister Eugenie shared an Instagram post celebrating 200 years since the birth of Queen Victoria, writing: "Today marks the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Queen Victoria (1819-1901). She reigned for almost 64 years and I'm very proud to be named after her.

"The first image is a portrait of Queen Victoria by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-1873) @royalcollectiontrust. The second is of Emily Blunt and Rupert Friend, who played Victoria and Albert in The Young Victoria (2009) - a film produced by @sarahferguson15."

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