# King Charles' Sausage Fingers King Charles' Sausage Fingers is the long-running online joke about the unusually thick, swollen look of King Charles III's hands, documented in tweets going back to 2011. Posts about his fingers surged after Queen Elizabeth II's death on September 8, 2022, when close-up photos of Charles's hands in a grey suit circulated widely on Twitter. ## Origin Mockery of Charles's hands predates the meme by decades. In a 1948 letter to a former teacher written soon after his birth, then-Princess Elizabeth said her son had an "interesting pair of hands for a baby," and Charles himself later wrote to a friend after Prince William was born that the boy had "sausage fingers just like mine"[1]. The earliest documented Twitter joke about the hands came from user @JiggyJulie on April 6, 2011[4]. British comedy also picked it up early: the official account for the panel show "Have I Got News For You" tweeted a sausage-fingers joke on September 4, 2015, which collected over a hundred likes[5]. Charles himself did not create any meme format; the joke grew organically from fans and comedians reacting to news photos[3]. - **Platform:** Twitter - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2011 ## Overview Posts in this format pair a close-up photo of King Charles III's hands with commentary about their puffy, link-sausage appearance, sometimes alongside speculation that oedema or arthritis is behind the look[2]. The joke works because the hands really do photograph strangely swollen next to the rest of him, so even sincere news images get screenshotted and recaptioned. A single 2019 state-visit photo of Charles pinning a medal in the Solomon Islands became the stock image people reach for, and most big posts since 2020 reuse that exact frame[3]. Captions range from mock concern to straight ridicule, with parody accounts posing as Charles himself joining in after his 2022 accession[7]. ## How to Use A typical post crops tight on Charles's hand from a press photo, usually the 2019 Solomon Islands shot, and adds a one-line caption mocking the size or texture of the fingers[3]. Parody accounts often write the joke in Charles's own voice, treating the fingers as a running bit the king is in on[7]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is King Charles' Sausage Fingers? It is a running online joke about the thick, swollen look of King Charles III's hands, mostly built around close-up press photos of his fingers[3]. ### Where did King Charles' Sausage Fingers come from? Tweets mocking the hands go back to at least April 6, 2011, with British comedy accounts and tabloids joining in by the mid-2010s[4]. ### What does King Charles' Sausage Fingers mean? The nickname fixates on how puffy his fingers look, with medical commentators attributing the swelling to oedema or arthritis rather than any serious condition[2]. ### How do you use King Charles' Sausage Fingers? Posters typically crop a press photo tight on his hand, often the 2019 Solomon Islands image, and add a one-line caption comparing the fingers to sausages[6]. ### Is King Charles' Sausage Fingers still popular? The joke saw its biggest surge around his September 2022 accession and still turns up whenever new photos of his hands appear in the press[7]. ## References 1. [https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/royals/queen-said-charles-large-hands-27967392]() 2. [https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/royal-family/king-charles-iii-doctor-weighs-in-on-swollen-sausage-fingers-as-monarchs-hands-attract-attention-online--c-8210502]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/king-charles-sausage-fingers]() 4. [https://twitter.com/JiggyJulie/status/55719627094892544]() 5. [https://twitter.com/haveigotnews/status/641566798270234626]() 6. [https://twitter.com/deYook/status/1532468770928746498]() 7. [https://twitter.com/kingcharles_lll/status/1569048210299133952]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/king-charles-sausage-fingers Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library