Meet the world's most lifelike Disney princess - a 21-year-old man from California. Richard Schaefer has transformed himself into an array of Disney princesses, including Snow White, Cinderella and Ariel, thanks to his naturally soft features and clever make-up tricks. The freelance make-up artist from Fullerton, Orange County, spends two hours on each transformation and wears his own home-made costumes. Richard attends comic conventions in character and wows fairytale fans, who are stunned when they discover the picture-perfect real life Disney princess is in fact a man.
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IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
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THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
UNDERWATER and above-water seaside shots show the best of British beach-life .