A pair of gloves that bare an uncanny resemblance to the monarch’s chubby digits are up for grabs on Facebook Marketplace.
The bizarre accessories were put on the secondhand shopping platform two days ago by a user going by the name Craig Trims from Clacton-on-Sea, who called the gloves ‘Prince Charles winter gloves’. At just £16, some would consider the gloves a steal. While the post doesn’t specify whether they are mens or women’s gloves, anybody could wear them, if they wanted to appear to have a royal case of dactylitis.
The life-like gloves have an elasticated cuff, come with neatly trimmed nails painted on to pudgy fingers and are a realistic reddy-white hue, which would also give the wearer of having chilblains and poor circulation in addition to sausage fingers.
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The gloves even have a signet ring on the left hand pinkie, just how the King wears his. It is unclear if the pair of wearable hands are lined or not.
The monarch’s digits have been of notable size since birth. Even the late Queen of England, Elizabeth II, was puzzled by the shape and state of her son’s fingers. She once wrote they were “rather large” and in stark contrast to her smaller, normal-sized hands.
Charles himself has referred to his hefty hands as sausage fingers, however following intense scrutiny of his wiener-like fingers the King took to hiding them in official photographs.
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According to medical experts, the puffy nature of the King’s fingers could be anything from oedema to arthritis. It could even be just a natural condition of old age, with the septuagenarian Monarch experiencing the wonders of later life.
An appearance in France drew some comments from Dr Chun Tang, who noted it could be “bacterial infections” behind the big digits.
He said: “Often puffy fingers are a symptom of water retention which can be caused by numerous health conditions. This condition arises due to inflammation and can be a result of arthritis, multiple bacterial infections or even TB. Other possibilities include high salt levels, allergic reactions, medicinal side effects, injury and autoimmune disease.”