Robert Cornelius, an American pioneer in photography, took his own picture in 1839.

It’s not only one of the first ever photographs of a person, but also the first ever “selfie”.

In 1914, a Russian Princess took a picture of herself in the mirror.

She was only 13 and sent the photo to a friend.

In the letter that accompanied the photograph, she wrote, “I took this picture of myself looking at the mirror. It was very hard as my hands were trembling.”

That’s probably because it wasn’t until the following Christmas that Santa bought her a selfie stick.

100 years later, teenagers are still doing the same thing; only most seem to be in the bathroom while attempting to look 20 years older than they are.

For every one selfie that makes it on to social media, I bet there were about 43 that were deleted before anyone could see them, too many chins, spots showing on the nose area, shadows on the bags under the eyes…. and that’s just MY selfie attempts!