Prince Charles becomes a royal meme

Clever Photoshoppers on b3ta and Reddit have worked their magic on a photo of the Prince of Wales playing the parachute game.

Fernando Alfonso III

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Posted on Jul 30, 2012 Updated on Jun 2, 2021, 1:43 pm CDT

When Prince Charles wiggled his hips a week and a half ago at a party celebrating his mum’s reign, little did he know the moment would be forever memorialized as a meme first started on B3ta, an 11-year-old British image sharing website known for its meme prowess.

Illustration by mrtrash

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Fernando Alfonso III

Fernando Alfonso III served as an early Reddit and 4chan reporter and the Daily Dot’s first art director until 2016. He’s gone on to report at Lexington’s Herald-Leader and at the Houston Chronicle.