Yes, we’re serious. Of everything in the world people want to know about King Charles today, it’s why his fingers look like that. ICYMI, King Charles ‘sausage fingers’ is a rolling meme around our current monarch, going viral after he was photographed signing something and people noticed his fingers are often quite swollen.
Don’t worry though, it’s not flat out bullying – King Charles is very much in on the joke. In fact, way back in 2012 he made a joke about them publicly after a getting off a long-haul flight to Australia.But what’s the deal, are King Charles fingers swollen for an actual medical reason? It seems so. According to GP Chun Tang, Medical Director at Pall Mall Medical in Manchester, there are many medical explanations it.
‘Often puffy fingers are a symptom of water retention which can be caused by numerous health conditions,’ he told the Daily Mail. ‘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.’
It’s never quite been confirmed whether King Charles suffer from any of these conditions, but he does appear to all take it in his stride. According to royal biography, The Man Who Will Be King by Howard Hodgson, Charles wrote a letter to his friend after his son, Prince William was born, and jokes ‘I can't tell you how excited and proud I am. He really does look surprisingly appetising and has sausage fingers just like mine.
So, knowing this King enjoys a ‘sausage fingers’ joke as much as the rest of us, here’s some of the funniest memes about King Charles sausage fingers that he himself would likely laugh at…Just so you know, whilst we may receive a commission or other compensation from the links on this website, we never allow this to influence product selections -