More formal term for "body-double"?

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I’m thinking of whatever the person would be who stands in for a royal or important figure during events to keep the actual person safe in the background - for a stupid example, the situation in Star Wars with Amidala and her handmaidens.

The specific term needs to deal with the replacement as a ***visual ***representation of the person, and preferably to also reference their having power to take action in that person’s name.

I’m not having any luck, and I don’t want to invent a term if there is already an established one.

Many thanks!

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Bait.

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Doppleganger In Fact?

Combines double with power of attorney.

Hey, you didn’t say it had to be elegant…

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…ok, let me add “elegant” to the list then. :smiley:

Thanks for the suggestion tho.

And while “Bait” is technically correct, we’re going for euphemisms here.

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Proxy? Ringer? Locum tenens? Or simply stand-in?

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“Body double” is the most used phrase. But I suppose political decoy is good too.

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Stand-in?

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Thanks for the answers - I ended up using locum tenens, but political decoy was actually the phrase I was unsuccessfully wracking my brains for.

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Stunt cock?