Prince Charles to come face to face with 'woolly doppelgnger' on royal tour

The Prince of Wales is set to be greeted by a sheepish figure when he arrives in Canada on Tuesday: his own "woolly doppelgnger."

Prince Charles will be introduced to a life-size, hand-needle-felted bust of his own visage as he meets with Canadian wool enthusiasts in St. John's,on the first leg ofhis three-day tour alongside his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall.

But the CEO of the Campaign for Wool in Canada says that's not even the "pice de rsistance" of the prince's woolly welcome.

Matthew Rowe says the non-profit industry association will also present its royal patron with a wool sculpture of his mother, the Queen.

Manitoban artist Rosemarie Ploquin says she spent hundreds of hours on each of the busts, using a barbed needle to sculpt the fine details of the royals' faces.

Peloquin says she feels like she got to know the prince over the course of his wool double's creation, and she's excited to see his real-life counterpart's face when the two meet.

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