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elizabeth-cooper OP t1_j0xa5gw wrote

Reply to comment by Mountain_Offer1348 in King Charles III bank note designs revealed by Bank of England by elizabeth-cooper

Is it? I think the picture makes him look puffy.

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pettycandy t1_j0xe0xe wrote

I agree. Puffy, but flattering in that there are not any age lines that I can see. Maybe from an earlier portrait?

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slyscamp t1_j0xrjey wrote

Charles doesn't actually look like the portrait. He has a much slenderer, oblong face shape with a prominent nose and ears, slender jaw, on top of much more wrinkles and much less hair.

Even when he was young he didn't have that face shape.

They didn't want to make the portrait actually look like him because he is so unconventionally handsome, so they made a fictional Charles.

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lstsmle331 t1_j0y7zrh wrote

Unconventionally Handsome. I’m gonna use that from now on.

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Sreg32 t1_j0xv5lz wrote

I agree, Puffy McChuck…from a current colony!

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LostTone8935 t1_j0ylql9 wrote

I think he looks way younger on the notes than in real life, he could be a spry young man of 60.

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