Let H be a ×-bialgebra in the sense of Takeuchi. We show that if H is ×-Hopf, and if H fulfills the finiteness condition necessary to define its skew dual, then the coopposite of the latter is ×-Hopf as well. If in addition the coopposite ×-bialgebra of H is ×-Hopf, then the coopposite of the Drinfeld double of H is ×-Hopf, as is the Drinfeld double itself, under an additional finiteness condition.