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When cheeky Romanians claimed their country beats the UK in every way – including pretty girls – the Sunday People just had to check it out.

Promotional adverts in the East European country said half their girls are like the Duchess of Cambridge and the rest are like her sister Pippa Middleton.

The boasts, in Gandul newspaper, were a tongue-in-cheek riposte to British plans for an ad campaign deterring Romanians from flooding to the UK when EU working restrictions are lifted next year.

One said ‘Half of our women look like Kate, the other half, like her sister’.

And after in-depth research we can reveal the girls there ARE beautiful – with lots of Kate and Pippa lookalikes.

However, most of the beauties told us – in their excellent English – that they want to come to BRITAIN for a better life.

Bravely leaving no stone unturned, we visited the smoke-filled bars of Bucharest’s old town.

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In one, lovely brunette student Dana Strungariu, 19, a dead ringer for Pippa, told us: “Romanian girls are very beautiful and I like the comparison with Kate and her sister. One of my friends has told me about London and I would like to move there.”

Her pretty friend Diana Hututui, who bears an uncanny likeness to Kate, hoped the joke posters will tempt some Brit hunks to Bucharest.

She purred: “British guys should definitely come here. We like British guys. We like your accent, it is nice, and you dress good.”

Lovely law student Christina Radulescu, 22, said: “I have been to London. It is much better there than here in Romania.

“I think when the visa restrictions are lifted next year I will move to London. It is beautiful and the wages are better.”

Cute Maria Ama, 20, added: “I like England. I was in love with London, it is so beautiful. I would like to come and work in England when I finish university.”

Other slogans read ‘Our draft beer is less expensive than your bottled water’, ‘Charles bought a house here and Harry has never been photographed naked once’ and ‘We speak better English than anywhere you’ve been in France’.

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Well, Prince Charles HAS bought a string of houses in Romania since falling in love with its wild landscape.

And things ARE much cheaper – we bought a pint of beer at a bar for 91p.

Volvic bottled water costs £1 at Tesco in the UK and a pint of beer costs £3.50 in the Sunday People’s local back home.

Romania’s national dish sarmale, a mix of meat, veg and rice wrapped in cabbage, costs around £5.91. Britain’s fish and chips average £7.60.

Twenty cigarettes cost just £2.46 in Romania, compared to around £7 in Britain. And a litre of petrol will set you back £1.14. In the UK it costs £1.34.

But Romania is a long way short of being a paradise. Almost half the population live in poverty and one in three cannot afford to pay bills or warm their homes. One in four under-25s are unemployed and those lucky enough to have a job average £300 a MONTH. The Brit figure is £2,200 before tax.

The city centre is full of ugly housing blocks in disrepair and last year thousands took to the streets to riot against conditions.

It has been estimated around 50,000 people a year from Romania and Bulgaria will move to the UK when controls are relaxed later this year.