For the first time in 70 years, Canada’s $20 bill is getting a new face. His Majesty King Charles III will replace his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, whose portrait has graced the currency since 1954. The Bank of Canada unveiled the new note Thursday, with the King’s visage framed by a tapestry of flowers and foliage – a nod to his “lifetime dedication to the environment” – alongside plants that are “culturally significant” to Indigenous peoples. The reverse side will retain the Vimy Ridge Memorial. The new Royal tender will be only the second vertical note issued by the Bank of Canada, following the $10 bill featuring civil rights crusader Viola Desmond. Its polymer construction, combined with security features that “spin, transform and pulse” when the note is tilted, is designed to make it difficult to counterfeit. But it wasn’t security features that had social media buzzing. It was the King himself – or, more specifically, his hair and jawline. Critics zeroed in on Charles’s remarkably coiffed locks and chiselled profile, with many suggesting an uncanny resemblance to actor Dominic West, who played the Royal in the Netflix series, The Crown. West, who has acknowledged the resemblance in the past, once quipped: “The only time I really look like Charles is from behind, because the hair is just perfect.”  |  iStock