Were there any cases where royalty was replaced with a look-a-like for political reasons?

by Vaalermoor

Recently I've read some fantasy novels where a princess was replaced by a look-a-like in order to marry her off to another person of royalty, because the real princess couldn't be found. Examples are Ciri in 'The Witcher' and Arya in 'A Song of Ice And Fire'. I wondered if there are any documented cases of this in actual history. I don't really have specific time period in mind, I'm more interested if it happened at all that we know of.

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