Princess Charlotte Has Apparently Inherited This ‘Brilliant Ability’ from Her Great-Grandmother Queen Elizabeth

There is more that Princess Charlotte and Queen Elizabeth have in common than just their similarities!

Princess Charlotte, 9, has a gift that she shares with her late great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, as well as with her grandmother, Princess Diana. Dance was a favorite pastime of the late Princess of Wales, and it is one of Charlotte’s current hobbies. Royal novelist Phil Dampier told Hello that Princess Charlotte can imitate famous people, much like the late queen before her!

 

According to Dampier, Charlotte also inherited the late Queen’s exceptional talent for imitating well-known people. “That should be useful when the royals get together to play charades at Sandringham in the evening on Christmas.”
He added, “Queen Elizabeth used to make her family laugh by impersonating politicians, such as former Russian leader Boris Yeltsin and U.S. presidents.”

On Hello!’s A Right Royal Podcast, fellow royal scribe Gyles Brandreth stated that Queen Elizabeth “could do regional accents from all over the country.”

A slapstick-style production that is a family tradition around Christmas in Britain, pantomime plays were performed by then-Princess Elizabeth and her younger sister Princess Margaret when they were teenagers. In her younger years, she also performed on theater, most notably in an Old Mother Red Riding Boots production in 1944.

 

 

Six of Elizabeth and Margaret’s surviving costumes from pantomimes performed in 1941–1944 to raise money for the Royal Household Wool Fund, which provided knitting wool for soldiers’ comforters, were on display at Windsor Castle in late 2021 and early 2022. The pieces featured costumes from a pantomime of Aladdin, in which the future king or queen played the title role.

Princess Charlotte exhibits a strong sense of maturity, just like Queen Elizabeth, according to Dampier.

He stated, “Charlotte appears to have inherited that trait from her great-grandmother, to whom she bears an uncanny resemblance, and 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.”

As third in line for the throne, he continued, “Charlotte seems to have an inner strength which may one day become invaluable.”

 

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This summer, Charlotte was by her mother Kate Middleton’s side when the 42-year-old Princess of Wales triumphantly returned to public life after announcing her cancer diagnosis on March 22. Charlotte acted as a protective guardian for her mother during June’s Trooping the Colour, which was Kate’s first public appearance since she revealed her condition. She and Pippa Middleton also accompanied her to Wimbledon in July.
“I’ve heard that Charlotte has been a tremendous source of strength for the Princess of Wales, even though she has undoubtedly been taking care of her kids during her cancer treatment and telling them she is getting better,” Dampier stated.