She really does look like Kate Middleton! 'You have to take the rough with the smooth' says world's number one Duchess of Cambridge impersonator.
The world’s number one Kate Middleton lookalike – a former waitress who now travels the world as the Duchess’ doppelganger – has been the target of death threats.
Recently, Heidi Agan, 34, revealed she had received chilling internet warnings from trolls targeting the Royal Family.
The mum-of-two from Staffordshire declined to comment on which country the anti-royalist threats stemmed from.
But the Duchess of Cambridge’s double has bravely brushed off the trolls.
She told the Birmingham Mail : “You have to take the rough with the smooth, and my smooth heavily outweighs the rough.”
The “smooth” includes travelling the world first-class to promote products, with brands eager to present a faux royal seal of approval.
The “rough” includes being harangued by stunned members of the public, and Heidi admits she often leaves foreign tourists believing they’ve captured a regal selfie.
“They ask ‘Are you really Kate?’,” laughed Heidi, who was discovered while working in a branch of Frankie and Bennys. “I just say ‘What do you think?’.”
And Heidi’s uncanny resemblance to the Duchess has earned her an army of male admirers. Since bursting on the lookalike scene three years ago she’s received an astonishing 15 marriage proposals.
Single mum Heidi, whose children are aged 13 and six, is not the only double Duchess. Far from it. There are 180 Kates, but only four Williams.
Heidi, however, is the undisputed royal ruler, and she works hard, very hard, to keep the crown on her head.
“If you want to be the best at anything, you have to research,” said Heidi who has around three lookalike appointments a week. “Things like hair colour. Has she changed the shade of her lipstick?
“It’s the mannerisms, little things no-one else would be interested in. I noticed, for instance, that when Kate’s nervous, she licks her lips.”
There’s no bitchiness between the royal lookalike rivals, Heidi stressed.
“It’s not competitive, we understand there is enough work for all of us,” she added. “The lookalike family is just that – a family.”
Incredibly, Heidi was blissfully unaware of her blue-blood features. She was urged to sign with an agency, but jumped on the bandwagon too late to cash in on the frenzy that surrounded Kate and William’s wedding.
Her very first job was promoting the Olympics at Gatwick Airport, and birth of Prince George saw work flood in. “The jubilee was big, the birth was incredible,” she admitted.
The couple’s second child, due next month, has failed to similarly grip the nation.
“This child does not seem to be as popular,” Heidi said. “The excitement surrounding George was the fact that a future king was coming. Of course, that will all change if Kate has a girl.”
The global assignments have ranged from the star-studded to the downright silly. She has advertised milk in Australia, received red carpet pampering fit for a princess in New York and just returned from a shoot in Hong Kong where her services were required by a bespoke tailor.
“Probably the strangest one,” recalled Heidi, “was playing Twister with a lookalike Prince William, lookalike Queen and lookalike corgi. Yes, they really do have lookalike corgis.
“You do have to pinch yourself sometimes. Just a couple of years ago I was working in a restaurant, now I’m flying first-class to Australia.”
But fame has come at a price.
“I suffer from severe anxiety,” Heidi confessed. “When you are doing live TV, the pressure is huge, it can get a little too much.”
She’s a big fan of the real Kate, and that helps inspire her during long days on location.
“I think she has done a lot for the fashion industry in Britain,” said Heidi. “She is a bit of normality in ‘the firm’. That’s something that I think is needed.
“I’ve never met her, but she knows of me. I hope she sees the funny side."
And Heidi won’t be hanging up her robe for many, many years.
“I’m looking forward to being a queen,” she giggled.
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