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See inside Roger Federer’s teenage bedroom

<p dir="ltr">While Roger Federer’s adult life has been filled with fame and success on and off the tennis court, a throwback photo has revealed that his teenage years were more similar to most of ours than we might expect.</p> <p dir="ltr">A photo of the tennis maestro’s bedroom has been doing the rounds on social media and shows a 17-year-old Federer grinning for the camera with bleach-blond hair, some spots, and wearing a baggy Nike sweatshirt.</p> <p><span id="docs-internal-guid-80512efe-7fff-5421-80f7-aa93133a3cae"></span></p> <p dir="ltr">The future World No. 1’s bedroom walls were covered in posters of his teenage idoles, including Pamela Anderson, and NBA stars Michael Jordan and Shaquille O’Neal.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">A 17-year-old Roger Federer with pin-ups of Jordan, Pamela Anderson and a Macedonian flag 🇲🇰 in his bedroom in Basel 😀 <a href="https://t.co/IPEIqzV9sw">pic.twitter.com/IPEIqzV9sw</a></p> <p>— Luigi Gatto (@gigicat7_) <a href="https://twitter.com/gigicat7_/status/1584598092065648642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 24, 2022</a></p></blockquote> <p dir="ltr">Other items dotted around his room included what appears to be an Akubra hat, along with the Montenegrin flag, a mini basketball hoop and a collection of trophies.</p> <p dir="ltr">Just five years after the photo was taken, Federer would win his first Major at Wimbledon in 2003.</p> <p dir="ltr">Fans were quick to share their thoughts on the photo, with many sharing lighthearted jokes and commenting on how normal the future star’s room looked.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Lol i like the 90s randomness of it all,” one person shared.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Looks like any normal kids room at the time,” another said.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Really been living up to his two as the blandest white guy on earth since day one,” a third teased.</p> <p dir="ltr">“The GOAT with my country’s flag 😍,” one fan enthused.</p> <p dir="ltr">As for his bleached locks, one fan dubbed it his “Eminem phase”, referencing American rapper’s iconic bleach blond hair which he had during the 1990s and 2000s.</p> <p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-845b454f-7fff-8174-435d-f678f04b1e2a"></span></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Image: Getty Images</em></p>

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Have you seen this pic before? Royal family shares sweet throwback snap of Queen Elizabeth and Princess Anne

<p>To celebrate the 69th birthday of Princess Anne, the Royal Family have shared a heartwarming throwback snap of the Princess Royal posing with her mother, Queen Elizabeth. </p> <p>The picture was taken by Annie Leibovitz in 2016 and appears to have been a snap from the monarch’s 90th birthday shoot. </p> <p>"Happy Birthday to The Princess Royal!" the Royal Family posted to social media. </p> <p>"The Princess Royal, the second child of Her Majesty The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh, was born at Clarence House on this day in 1950," they added. </p> <p>Reports believe the Princess is spending her birthday alongside her mother and other family members, who may be in Balmoral with the Queen. </p> <p>Younger brother, Prince Andrew also took to social media to wish his big sister a merry birthday - along with a sweet snap of them as children. </p> <p>"Wishing Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal a very Happy Birthday!" he wrote with the Instagram post.</p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/B1LjGleJ1Fa/" data-instgrm-version="12"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;"><a style="color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B1LjGleJ1Fa/" target="_blank">Wishing Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal a very Happy Birthday! #happybirthdayhrh</a></p> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">A post shared by <a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/hrhthedukeofyork/" target="_blank"> The Duke of York</a> (@hrhthedukeofyork) on Aug 15, 2019 at 2:58am PDT</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>Princess Anne’s two children, Peter Phillips and Zara Tindall are not on social media, so royal fans were not treated to a gushing tribute for their mother. </p> <p>Scroll through the gallery above to see Princess Anne and Queen Elizabeth throughout the years.</p>

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