Meghan Markle is the most attractive female royal according to science, a Harley Street doctor has revealed.
The bride-to-be came the closest to scoring 100 per cent based on the ‘golden ratio’, which is said to reveal ‘perfect’ physical beauty.
Harley Street surgeon Dr Julian De Silva mapped the 36-year-old’s face and compared it to the Duchess of Cambridge, Zara Phillips, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, who came in places two to five, respectively.
First place: Meghan Markle with 87.4 per cent. Dr Julian De Silva said: ‘Meghan has an almost perfectly shaped nose with a 98.5 per cent score, her eye position is exactly right and she has a gorgeous V-shaped or heart-shaped chin which is the shape women most covet’
Second place: Duchess of Cambridge with 86.8 per cent. Dr Julian De Silva said: ‘Kate stands out stands out for having a perfect gap between her nose and lips and very strong eye spacing. She was marked down for having a weaker chin and jawline than Meghan. She is a striking woman and her scores mark her out as one of the most beautiful women in the world’
Dr De Silva explained that Meghan had an almost perfect nose and that her eye position is ‘exactly right’.
In a close second was the Duchess of Cambridge, who scored 86.8 per cent.
The Golden Ratio was a mathematical equation devised by the Ancient Greeks in an attempt to measure beauty.
The ratio can be applied to anything and was used by Leonardo Da Vinci for the perfect human male body in his celebrated Vitruvian Man.
Third place: Zara Phillips with 81.6 per cent, Dr Julian De Silva said: ‘Zara is few points behind Meghan and Kate. She is still a beautiful woman but is marked down by a weak chin and poor eye spacing.’
The closer the ratios of a face or body are to the number 1.618, the more beautiful they become.
Dr De Silva, who runs the Centre For Advanced Facial Cosmetic & Plastic Surgery in London, said: ‘Meghan and Kate both really stood out and got significantly higher marks than the three other princesses.
‘Meghan has beautiful facial symmetry and gets closer than any other princess to having what the Greeks considered the perfect face.
‘Meghan has an almost perfectly shaped nose with a 98.5% score, her eye position is exactly right and her gorgeous V-shaped chin is far more classically beautiful than Kate’s.
Fourth place: Princess Beatrice with 80.7 per cent. Dr Julian De Silva said: ‘Beatrice scored highly for her nose which is beautifully shaped but had the lowest mark of all the princesses for her chin’
Fifth place: Princess Eugenie with 79.3 per cent. Dr Julian De Silva said: ‘Princess Eugenie had by far the lowest mark for her lips at 68.3 per cent – 12 points behind any of the other princess. She is a very pretty woman and scored well in other areas such as eye positioning’
‘Kate gets a very high rating, too, and stands out for having a perfect gap between her nose and lips and very strong eye spacing.
‘The other three princesses all received high scores but were a little further away from Golden Ratio perfection than Meghan and Kate.
‘These brand new computer mapping techniques allow us to solve some of the mysteries of what it is that makes someone physically beautiful, and the technology is useful when planning patients’ surgery.
‘The Phi ratio of 1.618 has long been thought to hold the secret of beauty, and now with the computer mapping we can calculate exactly how it applies to all the royal princesses.’