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King Charles Is Known For His Sausage Fingers - And The Complaint Appears To Run In The Family
Since ascending the throne last September, King Charles' fingers have gained an unexpected amount of attention.
In fact, his puffy digits - which he has previously described as 'sausage fingers' - have gone viral, and were at one point seventh on Google's most searched list.
The King has been pictured with swollen-looking hands and feet many times, noticeably after long periods spent flying or travelling to hot countries.
He was also seen with painfully swollen hands and feet during the first day of his royal tour in India in 2019 when he removed his shoes to step into a Sikh temple in New Delhi.
Observers also pointed out the royals' swollen hands while he sipped a pint in The Prince of Wales pub in Clapham Old Town in 2021.
The king (pictured) has garnered a huge amount of attention since ascending the throne for his self-described 'sausage fingers'
Queen writes to her music teacher about Charles's hands
While the monarch's hands have been thrust into the spotlight since he ascended the throne, they have long been a noticeable feature on King Charles's body - and were even mentioned when he was a child.
His late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, famously noted that her firstborn had large digits when he was a mere baby.
And his large hands were a feature the Queen described in a letter to her music teacher after Charles had been born.
She wrote: 'The baby is very sweet and we are enormously proud of him. He has an interesting pair of hands for a baby.
'They are rather large, but with fine long fingers quite unlike mine and certainly unlike his father's.
'It will be interesting to see what they become.'
When Prince William (pictured) was born, in a letter to a friend, the then-Prince Charles wrote: 'he has sausage fingers just like mine'
Charles's comments on Prince William's hands
While the king is certainly the royal with the most notably sausage-like digits, his are not the only sizeable fingers.
In fact, it seems he passed the chunky extremities onto his eldest son, something he commented on when the heir apparent was just a baby.
When the now-monarch wrote a letter to a friend about his newborn son, Prince William, he mentioned his puffy hands.
'I can't tell you how excited and proud I am,' he wrote, as quoted in Charles, The Man Who Will Be King by Howard Hodgson.
'He really does look surprisingly appetising and has sausage fingers just like mine.'
Like his older brother, Prince Andrew (pictured) also has fingers that are on the chunkier side, and they have been at the centre of a controversy
Prince Andrew's allies have insisted THAT photo is a fake
Another royal with fingers on the chunkier side is Prince Andrew.
While his digits have not garnered as much attention as the King's, they have been at the centre of a strange conversation.
When a photograph showing Prince Andrew with his accuser Virginia Giuffre was published, fans of the royal insisted it has been doctored, and that it is a fake.
And one of the reasons they gave for believing this relates to the royal's fingers.
The photograph, said to have been taken in 2001, shows Andrew with her hand around Ms Giuffre's waist next to a laughing Maxwell.
It was first published by The Mail on Sunday in 2011 after the newspaper found Ms Giuffre living in a small bungalow in New South Wales, Australia. She is said to have given the original to FBI investigators in 2011.
Andrew and his allies aired a series of theories to suggest the photo is a fake - with one being that his fingers in the snap 'aren't chubby enough'.
The Duke of York's friends have previously raised doubts over the veracity of the photo by claiming the hand around Ms Giuffre's waist 'doesn't look right' and suggesting he looks too small.
A source told the London Evening Standard: 'Look at his fingers in the photo. The duke has quite chubby fingers - they don't look right and nor does the height of the duke and the girl.'
The monarch's swollen hands were on full show last week when he toasted French President Emmanuel Macron during a state banquet at the Palace of Versailles
What causes 'sausage fingers'?While royal fans have expressed concern over the appearance of the King's hands, he has not confirmed the reason for the swelling.
According to a doctor, swollen fingers could be due to a number of health concerns, or could be the result of water retention, or simply old age.
Several conditions including oedema or arthritis could be responsible. Other causes could be high blood pressure, or a high salt diet.
Oedema is a condition where the body starts to retain fluids in the limbs, causing them to swell - and it can also occur in the fingers.
Men are less likely than women to suffer from oedema. This is because the female hormone progesterone tends to cause the condition, leaving some women with puffy ankles just before their period. Older people develop the disorder if they sit for long periods of time.
However, it could be a result of arthritis, which is a common condition in the over 60s and affects the thumb joint and the joints in the fingers. Fingers usually become stiff, painful and swollen and although medication can help with the pain, the swelling can remain.
Advertisement'I'm A Dog Groomer And There's 11 Breeds I'd Never Own - Including King Charles Cavalier'
A professional dog groomer has shared the breeds of dogs that she'd never personally own, saying that she has her reasons for each - and a big debate was sparked about each
The dog groomer shared breeds she'd never own (Stock Image) (Image: Getty Images/Johner RF)
With fierce debates currently raging surrounding XL bully dogs, some are furious that the breed has got a bad reputation due to a recent spate of attacks, blaming irresponsible owners, and others are adamant that the breed is naturally aggressive, and they're 'hard-wired for strength and violence'.
But now other breeds are also coming under fire as some experts admit that they'd never want to own them. Dog groomer 'Pawfection by Holly' said that she 'had her reasons' for not wanting to keep these breeds of pooches as pets. In the caption, she wrote: "Just my opinion I still love them all."
The video began with: "Dog breeds I wouldn't own as a dog breeder." The video then went through pictures of each breed. The breeds included in the video were "any doodle, chihuahua, pomeranian, husky, British bulldog, shitzu, French bulldog, westie, chow chow, shar pei, King Charles cavalier."
In the comments, some defended their favourite breeds, and other dog groomers wrote their opinions. One said: "As a fellow dog groomer I agree with this list 100% - plus American cockers." Holly joked: "I could've added so much more but the video would've been too long."
Another groomer chimed in, commenting: "I'm a groomer. It's funny my top two dogs I dislike grooming are doodle, and shitzu. Yet I have a rescued shitzu haha." Someone added: "I'm a dog groomer that just got a doodle pup", followed by a crying with laughter face. "I can't help it. They are adorable goofballs."
"All dogs are amazing", a dog-lover pointed out, whilst another said: "As a sister of a dog groomer - I got two cockapoos- she was not buzzed about it."
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King Charles III Has A Big Problem In Australia
King Charles III is under pressure to visit Australia—which counts him as its king—after trips to Germany, France and Romania.
After more than a year as king, Charles is yet to visit any of the 14 countries outside Britain that recognise him as monarch, leading to growing criticism in Australian society.
Instead, Charles' major overseas tours have targeted Britain's key allies in Europe, France and Germany, while he also made a more-casual visit to Romania.
King Charles III, as the Prince of Wales, peers over his sunglasses in the Larrakeyah Defence Precinct, in Darwin, Australia, on April 10, 2018, during his last visit to the country. The monarch is under pressure to go back. Mick Tsikas - Pool/Getty ImagesLast week, the king earned a standing ovation in the French Senate, but that appears to have done little to reassure his subjects in the southern hemisphere.
The pressure on the king and Queen Camilla to take a trip to Australia comes after polling by Research Co. Earlier this year found that six countries, including Australia, would vote to remove Charles as head of state if a referendum were called.
Allison Langdon, presenter of A Current Affair, which network Channel 9 boasts is "Australia's No. 1 daily current affairs program," recently did a segment suggesting the country was being snubbed.
On September 23, Langdon said: "Just six months ago, King Charles III gave a very passionate speech about how much the Commonwealth of Nations means to him.
"But, this week, the king's been getting wined and dined in spectacular fashion in France, which has many Australians wondering, 'Are we being royally snubbed?'" added Langdon.
Isaac Jeffrey, chief executive of Australia Republic Movement, said in a statement on Monday: "King Charles III is King of Australia by birthright and he has held that lofty position for over a year now, yet our King hasn't made the trip to visit us.
"In fact, he hasn't been to any of the Commonwealth nations which still call him their King and Head of State. He's visited Germany, Romania and, within the last few days, he sipped champagne in France, but he hasn't found time for us," Jeffrey added.
"The monarchy takes us for granted. They believe we are their loyal subjects by birth right and that we should all take a knee and swear allegiance, but why should we?
"Why should we just blindly accept that they are our head of state when loyalty is expected but not given?" he said.
Jeffrey added that Charles, who turns 75 in November, had "only visited Australia 16 times" and "only managed around one visit every five years," including some lasting a few days, such as his most-recent tour in 2018.
"His son, Prince William, our future King, has only visited us four times—the last almost a decade ago," Jeffrey said.
"Yet without change, he will one day be king of Australia and our head of state—the person who is supposed to be the symbol and embodiment of who we are as a people. How can you possibly hope to represent us and understand us, if you've only visited four times?"
Monarchists and republicans alike in Britain have long anticipated that succession from Queen Elizabeth II to her eldest son might trigger moves to remove the British monarch as head of state.
And it was days before some Caribbean nations began signaling a desire to hold referenda on the prospect, with Antigua and Barbuda announcing a three-year timeline while the royals were still in mourning and before Elizabeth's funeral.
Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Gaston Browne told U.K. Channel ITV at the time: "This is a matter that has to be taken to a referendum for the people to decide.
"It does not represent any form of disrespect to the monarch. This is not an act of hostility, or any difference between Antigua and Barbuda and the monarchy," Browne said.
"It is a final step to complete the circle of independence to become a truly sovereign nation," he added.
Surveys conducted in February and March by pollster Lord Ashcroft, a former deputy chairman of Britain's Conservative Party, found that Australia, Canada, the Bahamas, Jamaica, the Solomon Islands, and Antigua and Barbuda would all choose a democratically elected head of state if given the option.
Among Australians, 42 per cent wanted a republic, while 35 per cent wanted to keep the monarchy.
The absence of a royal visit to the countries around the world that count Charles as king, known as Commonwealth Realms, has also been picked up by commentators in Britain.
Robert Jobson, author of Our King, this month told Newsweek: "I would like to have seen him sure up the Commonwealth, sure up the realms. Had he gone to Australia or New Zealand or Canada, I would have liked to see that in the first instance, as opposed to Germany and now France."
Jack Royston is chief royal correspondent for Newsweek, based in London. You can find him on Twitter at @jack_royston and read his stories on Newsweek's The Royals Facebook page.
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