Girl who is dead ringer for Princess Charlotte leaves strangers regularly doing a double take
A PROUD mum whose daughter is a dead ringer for Princess Charlotte says she regularly gets stopped in the street by strangers convinced she is the royal tot.
Little Marcy Culverwell, five, is mistaken so often that people stare open-mouthed and point at her while doing a double take.
Her mum Gemma, 35, says they’ve even been stopped while shopping in Primark and at the airport when jetting off on holiday.
Gemma, of Sheffield, South Yorks, said: “Marcy looks more like Princess Charlotte than the official lookalike does.
“People stop us as we’re walking past and say ‘oh, she looks so much like Princess Charlotte”.
“The first time it happened we were in Primark and the woman serving us said ‘oh god your daughter looks like Princess Charlotte’.
“I don’t know why anyone would think she would be in Meadowhall in Sheffield without her mum – I’m not Princess Kate!’
“It never clicked until she said it, it was only when I looked at pictures of her that I realised she does.
“The checkout girl at Birmingham Airport last year when we went on holiday to Turkey was checking her passport and did a double take too.
“It’s very flattering, Princess Charlotte is such a lovely little girl – always good fun and always looks beautiful, it’s a very nice comparison.”
Marcy, who is 10 months older than her royal lookalike, despises wearing trousers and instead prefers donning dresses and skirts similar in style to the ones Princess Charlotte wears.
Gemma said: “Marcy gets very upset if you put her in trousers. She likes wearing skirts and dresses because she says she doesn’t want to look like a boy.
People stop us as we’re walking past and say ‘oh, she looks so much like Princess Charlotte’
“If we got to the soft play I’ll say she can’t wear a skirt because she would burn her bum on the slide or flash people and that she needs to have trousers on but it isn’t worth the hassle.
“At that point I just say ‘put what you want on’.
“I wouldn’t go to the extreme of dressing her like Princess Charlotte but it’s nice when people comment.”
Gemma said that more and more people have started commenting on the similarity between her in the last year – both online and in person.
And although not signed up with an agency Gemma said she’s open to little Marcy doing lookalike work.
Gemma said her daughter also has a matching “feisty” personality that she puts to good effect on stage during pageant competitions.
Gemma said: “Marcy has quite a feisty edge to her but Princess Charlotte has too – they’re like your modern-day princesses.
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“I’ve showed Marcy pictures of her and said ‘this is who people think you look like’.
“She thinks she’s nice but doesn’t have that awareness yet of looking like somebody else.
“She’s full of life, full of character and is our little princess.”
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