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King George and Tsar Nicolas Looked a Lot Alike
- Iwan-Zotow 4y agoThey were relatives
- xdennis 4y agoYes, but it takes a lot of inbreeding for all of them to look alike.
- mistrial9 4y agolike this? https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53059527 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53059527
- MiscIdeaMaker99 4y agoThey were 3rd cousins, meaning they had the same 2nd great grandparents.
- johnsonap 4y ago1st cousins actually. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_II_of_Russia#:~:text=Nicholas%2C%20his%20wife%20Alexandra%2C%20and%20German%20emperor%20Wilhelm%20II%20were%20all%20first%20cousins%20of%20King%20George%20V%20of%20the%20United%20Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_II_of_Russia#:~:text=...
- mmanfrin 4y agoThey were first cousins, they were both grandchildren of Queen Victoria.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y agoActually their common grandparent was not Queen Victoria, but rather King Christian of Denmark.
- junar 4y agoYeah, it gets a bit confusing when you add in the German Emperor, Wilhelm II. * George V and Nicholas II share Christian IX of Denmark as a common grandparent * George V and Wilhelm II share Victoria as a common grandparent * Nicholas II and Wilhelm II are more distantly related to each other (second cousins once-removed through Frederick William III of Prussia)
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y agoAlso Nicolas’s wife Alexandra was Victoria’s granddaughter and a cousin of George and Wilhelm.
- unmole 4y agoIs it just me or do they don't actually look a lot alike? I can't see a single facial feature that the both of them share.
- soperj 4y agoSeriously? they both have attached earlobes.
- unmole 4y agoAs does half the human population. What is even your point?
- cgriswald 4y agoHe was responding to this statement: > I can't see a single facial feature that the both of them share.
- tshaddox 4y agoContext is important. They both also lack a proboscis, but that also doesn’t count.
- cgriswald 4y agoContext is important. The only claim made was that the original commenter was unable to find a shared facial feature. The respondent gave an example of one. Everything else was just people expressing their surprise at what other people do or do not see because of what they do or do not see.
- WorldMaker 4y agoThat's how you can tell none of them are the real Count de Bleuchamp. (This is a plotline from the Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service.)
- cgriswald 4y ago
- hprotagonist 4y agohttps://rarehistoricalphotos.com/nine-kings-one-photo/ https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/nine-kings-one-photo/ family reunion time!
- ajcp 4y agoThis is a well commented upon outcome[0]. White males in similar clothing, hair-style, and beard = doppelganger. 0: https://i.redd.it/9kap3p05rpg41.png https://i.redd.it/9kap3p05rpg41.png
- DontMindit 4y ago
- BbzzbB 4y agoI mean, are these not doppelgangers?
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- tshaddox 4y agoI mean, the pictures aren’t super clear, but I don’t know. When the qualities that are in common between the two people are themselves quite common and not particularly distinct, I’d hardly call them doppelgängers. Being in the same broad range of BMI and having roughly the same hair color and eyeglasses color isn’t really enough. Maybe the long dreadlocks are distinct enough to count. I suppose specific scenarios like being sat next to someone on an airplane also lowers the threshold of notability. The guys with light hair and a beard probably justifies a selfie, but I still wouldn’t use the term “doppelgänger.” To me a doppelgänger is someone who looks so much like you that if you caught a glimpse of them in a crowd you’d think “whoa, I can’t believe there’s someone out there who looks that much like me.”
- zeven7 4y agoGiven that the two monarchs that are the subject of this thread are very closely related, I don't get all the dismissals of this being a superficial likeness. They literally have extremely similar genetics. They should look similar. There aren't any gotchas.
- ajcp 4y ago
- seydor 4y agoVery misleading. Cover their moustaches and you see the diffences. The pics are not even color. Nicolas was goodlooking
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- marcusverus 4y agoMeh. They're the same height and have the exact same nose, but the other eye-catching similarities (same hair color, same haircut, same beard/stache, same regal countenance) are superficial. If they had different haircuts, shaved faces, and were captured in a more candid scene, I'm not sure that we'd see much of a similarity. Here's another image[0] of them in which they look less like twins (ignoring the over-the-top superficial similarities). [0]https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/106/590x/King-George-V-and-Russian-Tsar-Nicholas-II-876385.jpg https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/106/590x/King-G...
- JasonFruit 4y agoYes, the eyes and the shape of the brow are totally different. It's interesting that the uniform of nobility, like that of a soldier or a fast-food worker, deemphasizes individuality.
- germinalphrase 4y agoBut emphasizes rank which is logical. We are the same, but I am better.
- JasonFruit 4y agoIt subordinates the person to the office.
- jltsiren 4y agoThat's what life was supposed to be until recently. You were your role, and in most cases you were born into it. The current middle class idea that you can assume different roles in different situations is the weird exception.
- luckydata 4y agothey could still be brothers. I know couples of brothers that look way more different than they did.
- Hacktrick 4y agoYea ofc they did. They were cousins.
- simo7 4y agoNot only they were cousins, in their private correspondence right before the outbreak of WWI they were addressing each other as Willy and Nicky[0]. By the way they fought against each other. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy%E2%80%93Nicky_correspondence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy%E2%80%93Nicky_correspond... edit: I meant the correspondence between the third cousin, Wilhelm II, and Tsar Nicholas.
- jonny_eh 4y agoKaiser Wilhelm doesn't look too different either.
- Animats 4y ago"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other." Very much the case in 19th century Europe, where most of the royalty was related.
- riffraff 4y agoThere's a beautiful poem in roman dialect called "the war lullaby"[0] from this period. The last two stanzas speak of this, and go something like: Sleep tight, my darling while this mess goes on sleep well, as tomorrow we'll see the kings again exchanging pleasantries good friends as before they're cousins, and amongst relatives you don't need formalities, again will turn friendly the personal relations. And reunited among them with no sign of remorse they'll give a nice speech on Peace and Labour to that dumb people spared by the gun. [0] in italian/romanesco http://www.la-poesia.it/poesie-di-trilussa/trilussa-ninna-nanna-della-guerra-4635-1.html http://www.la-poesia.it/poesie-di-trilussa/trilussa-ninna-na...
- guelo 4y agoI wouldn't translate "popolo cojone" as dumb people.
- EarthLaunch 4y ago
- franky47 4y agoThey were recently both portrayed (along with their third cousin Kaiser Wilhelm II) by Tom Hollander in The King's Man (2021).
- scintill76 4y agoFYI, probably downvoted because this is the first line of the article.
- OnlyMortal 4y agoMaybe they’re related?
- neaden 4y agoThey were cousins.
- subsubzero 4y agoYou would be surprised how similar someone looks to another when they dress alike, have a covering that obscures half their face(beards that are similar in this picture) and have a similar haircut/skin tone. Looking at that picture if you look at just their eyes and eyebrows you can then see the differences, I think if they were clean shaven they may look more dissimilar.
- arcanus 4y agoI disagree. There has always appeared to me to be a wide variety of beard sizes and shapes. I know men who cannot grow a beard. I can only grow a thin, straight beard, and I have friends with thick beards that curl around.
- greggsy 4y agoThe archetypal gym junkie with beard and top knot all look the same to me
- gurooj 4y agoAnd when they're multi-generationally incestuous first cousins ...
- cercatrova 4y agoReminds me of this Instagram account that people were talking about a while ago (and indeed the title of this article has the same naming format as the Instagram account) [0]. Hint, it's usually the opposite of what you might initially suspect. [0] https://www.instagram.com/siblingsordating/ https://www.instagram.com/siblingsordating/
- alanh 4y ago
- polishdude20 4y agoEh.. I don't see the same resemblance. I mean Justin is no Pierre but he's not a Castro from what I can see.
- yonaguska 4y agoYou're the first person I've ever heard of that doesn't see the resemblance there.
- _whiteCaps_ 4y agoHe looks more like Jays player Dave Lemanczyk. https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/Dzldde7rwJDwke-Mop_9rk6aggs=/0x0:250x350/920x613/filters:focal(105x155:145x195):format(webp)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/67215134/dave.0.jpg https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/Dzldde7rwJDwke-Mop_9rk6aggs=...
- aasasd 4y agoFunny enough, both seemed to have carried their haircuts through all, or at least most of life since late adolescence (dunno about earlier). Perhaps so that they could be told apart by that detail.
- anyfoo 4y agoHow does it feel to wear all that "stuff"?
- goatcode 4y agoSo do Prince Charles (Windsor) and Vlad the Impaler.
- tomatowurst 4y agoWhy is reincarnation such a difficult concept to grasp for Westerners?
- parenthesis 4y agoThose beards are pretty hip.
- twelve40 4y agoNo doubt, but the 'stache? How did either one of them even eat without making a mess? (asking for a friend)
- qiskit 4y agoThe leaders of two of the most horrific empires in history are related? This used to be spammed on reddit years ago. They were apparently cousins.
- panick21_ 4y agoImperial Germany and Imperial Russia were far away from the most horrific empire in history.
- qiskit 4y agoThey were leaders of imperial britain and imperial russia, not imperial germany. Though both were of mostly ethnic german stock. I don't think anyone would disagree that the british and russian empires were two of the most terrible empires in history. The british empire easily being the more horrible as the british empire was far more successful than the russian empire.
- croes 4y agoAren't all empires horrific? At least for their victims?