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Seeing double: Prince Harry and Prince Philip could have passed as brothers in their youth

The genes run strong in the British Royal Family.
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As soon as a new baby is born, proud parents and relatives are always quick to try and spot family resemblances in their bub.

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And it’s no different for the British Royal Family, who’s strong genes and features are cropping up in the next generation.

Whether it’s Prince William’s Diana-like pout, Archie’s Harry-esque ginger hair or Prince George’s sweet cross-over with his dad Prince William – royal watchers can’t get enough of pointing out the similarities.

But perhaps the most special royal lookalike is that of Prince Harry’s and his late paternal grandfather Prince Philip when he was a military man.

In the wake of the Duke Of Edinburgh’s recent passing on April 9, royal watchers have revisited the pair’s spooky likeness.

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One image of note is a vintage cover of Paris Match from 1957 featuring a bearded Prince Philip during his navy days ,which bears an uncanny resemblance to a rugged Prince Harry when he had facial hair.

They could have seriously passed as brothers!

Keep scrolling as we round up the best royal lookalikes of all time!

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Granddad’s double: A vintage cover of Paris Match from 1957 featuring a bearded Prince Philip during his navy days bears an uncanny resemblance to Prince Harry.

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Even when the duo were clean-shaven, their similarities were striking – it’s all in that angular jawline and smouldering pout.

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The young ones: Prince Philip acts in a play in 1935, while a teenage Prince Harry Prince Harry watches a youth squad training in 2002. The late Prince Philip looked spookily similar to Prince Harry as a teenager.

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It’s all in the Spencer pout! Parallels have often been drawn between Prince William and his late mother, Princess Diana – and it’s easy to see why with the pair sharing the same captivating grin.

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All hail Prince William 2.0! A baby Prince William (L) reminds us so much of a baby Prince George, pictured on the steps of Kensington Palace in December 2014.

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Comparisons have also been made between George and his mother, Duchess Catherine, when she was a little girl.

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As for Prince William and Duchess Catherine’s youngest son Prince Louis (R), royal watchers reckon he’s already taking after his big brother George thanks to those chubby cheeks and mischievous grin (L).

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While others have noted how much young Louis looks like his dad Prince William at the same age.

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Dad’s double! To mark his first birthday, the Sussexes released a touching home video, filmed by Prince Harry, of Duchess Meghan reading to Archie and fans have gone wild with comparisons of a young Harry at the same age as his son.

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There’s no doubt Archie (L) has inherited his dad’s rosy cheeks, captivating grin and a touch of red hair.

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But let’s not forget mum! You can definitely see lots of baby Meghan (L) in him, too.

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But it’s Princess Charlotte who perhaps has the most royal doppelgangers out of anyone. In May last year, after the palace released a series of new portraits to mark Charlotte’s fifth birthday, twitter melted down after it was highlighted just how much the middle Cambridge child and Princess Margaret’s daughter, Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, or Lady Sarah Chatto, looked alike.

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Girls in green: Lady Sarah Chatto and Princess Charlotte really could be mistaken for twins.

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One of Princess Charlotte’s more unexpected royal twins is Lady Kitty Spencer (L), Prince William’s maternal cousin when she was a little one.

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Gan-Gan’s double? When these three photos of Princess Charlotte were released to mark her fourth birthday, many royal watchers have pointed out Charlotte’s likeness to her great-grandmother, The Queen, when she was a little girl.

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While there’s no denying there’s a strong cross-over with Queen Elizabeth, we’d like to point out just how much Princess Charlotte takes after her mother. Those lips! That hair!

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And just as we thought she was Kate mini-me, along comes dad Prince William at the same age and we literally can’t make our minds up now.

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Or is she more like Granny Diana? Those pursed lips and that cheeky expression of Charlotte’s reminded the world of a young Princess Diana (L) when she was the same age.

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“I would loved her to have met Catherine and to have seen the children grow up. It makes me sad that she won’t, that they will never know her,” Prince William has said of not having Diana around to meet George and Charlotte.

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