Bearded William is trying to be the David Beckham of the Royal Family, and it just won't do: AN WILSON
Daily MailIn case you wondered whether the Prince of Wales had been usefully occupied during his summer holidays, look no further. When Harry got married to Meghan Markle, however, he was sprouting an unsightly ginger beard, and – so he claimed – the Queen had given his facial fungus her blessing. William has, of course, grown a beard before, during a ten-day training exercise with the Royal Navy's Special Boat Service in Barbados in 2008. Harry and Megan on their wedding day Brothers at war, Harry and William It is also true that a number of Royal forebears – Edward VII and George V, for example – were proudly unshaven. Men had been clean-shaven in Western Europe since the times of the Roman Caesars, and then this generation really let themselves go – with the likes of the scientist Charles Darwin, novelist Anthony Trollope and others wearing not merely beards but growths of facial hair which were positively Father Christmas in nature.
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