A man who claims to be the illegitimate son of Prince Charles has shared a photograph which he says proves his blue blood.
According to News.com.au, 55-year-old Simon Dorante-Day, who was born in the United Kingdom but who now lives in Queensland in Australia, alleges that he is the eldest son of the Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker-Bowles.
He believes he was conceived in secret back in 1966, when Prince Charles was 17 and Parker-Bowles was 18 - prior to Charles' infamous marriage to Princess Diana in 1981.
Dorante-Day was adopted by a family from Portsmouth, England - a family who had links to the British Royal Family. Growing up, he was then allegedly told by his adoptive grandmother that he was Charles' son.
In an interview with 7News, Dorante-Day said: "My grandmother, who had worked for the Queen, told me outright that I was Camilla and Charles’ son many times."
Although the British Royal Family has not deigned to respond officially to these claims, Dorante-Day now boasts a team of legal aides, and a number of followers on social media, who support his claims of legitimacy.
As proof of this, Dorante-Day shared a side-by-side image made by one of his supporters of his teenage son Liam next to a black-and-white picture of The Queen in her twenties, all in an effort to show the similarity in facial characteristics between them.
He captioned the post:
"One of the followers [on] the page spent a fair amount of time today contrasting and comparing some Images. Wow. Thank you so much - now I'm going from seeing young Charles in Liam to her Maj [...] Too good not to share. [sic]"
In a later interview with 7News, Dorante Day spoke about the picture, stating: "We were blown away when we first saw it."
He continued: "[My wife] and I feel like we see many members of the royal family in our children, but this one was an eye-opener.
"One of my supporters did the comparison and sent it to me and I was speechless. A lot of people are reacting to it because it’s hard to deny the similarity."
In a 2019 interview with New Idea, Dorante-Day claimed that Princess Diana knew about him and the alleged circumstances of his birth, stating: "We believe that Diana knew of my existence and that she had put the pieces together.
"I think Diana was at a point where she was finding out answers about her life, how she was wronged, and she was going to go public with it."
