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

Princess Charlotte and Queen Elizabeth share even more in common than resembling one another!

Princess Charlotte, 9, not only shares a talent with her grandmother, Princess Diana — dance was a passion of the late Princess of Wales’, and is a current hobby of Charlotte’s — but Charlotte also shares a talent with her late great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth. Like the late monarch before her, Princess Charlotte can mimic well-known figures, royal author Phil Dampier told Hello!.

I’m told Charlotte has also inherited from the late Queen a brilliant ability to mimic prominent figures,” Dampier said. “That should come in handy at Christmas when the royals gather in the evening at Sandringham to play charades.”

“Queen Elizabeth used to have her family in stitches with her impersonations of politicians, including U.S. presidents and former Russian leader Boris Yeltsin,” he continued.

Fellow royal author Gyles Brandreth said on Hello!’s A Right Royal Podcast that Queen Elizabeth “could do regional accents from all over the country.”

As teenagers, then-Princess Elizabeth and her younger sister Princess Margaret performed in pantomime plays, a slapstick-style show that is a family tradition around Christmas in Britain. She also acted on stage in her youth, including in a 1944 staging of Old Mother Red Riding Boots.

In late 2021 and early 2022, six surviving costumes worn by Elizabeth and Margaret from 1941 to 1944 in pantomimes put on to raise money for the Royal Household Wool Fund — which supplied knitting wool to make comforters for soldiers — went on display at Windsor Castle. The pieces included outfits from an Aladdin pantomime, which saw the future monarch play the titular role.

Also like Queen Elizabeth, Princess Charlotte displays a deep sense of maturity, Dampier said.

“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, and Charlotte seems to have inherited that trait from her great-grandmother, to whom she bears an uncanny resemblance,” he said.

He added, “Charlotte seems to have an inner strength which may one day become invaluable, as she is third in line to the throne.”

Charlotte was by her mother Kate Middleton’s side this summer as the Princess of Wales, 42, made a triumphant return to public duty following her March 22 announcement that she had been diagnosed with cancer. At June’s Trooping the Colour — Kate’s first public appearance since announcing her diagnosis — Charlotte protectively watched over her mother, and was by her side again in July at Wimbledon, along with Pippa Middleton.

“I’m told that, although the Princess of Wales has obviously been looking after her children during her cancer treatment and reassuring them she is getting better, Charlotte has been a great source of strength to her,” Dampier said.