The wax figure of Queen Elizabeth in the Hamburg Panoptikum is currently making headlines. The queen’s hair was obviously saved!
Hamburg – A selfie with Queen Elizabeth (95) or a photo with Duchess Kate (40)? At least in a wax museum, this dream can come true for royal fans. A replica of the queen in the Hamburg Panoptikum is currently causing a stir. The figure is missing an important part – hair*!
Bald Queen Elizabeth: Wax figure causes shocked faces
Wax museums continue to enjoy enormous popularity around the world. There, celebrity, sports or royal fans can – more or less – get as close to authentic replicas of their great idols as they will probably never come to the original. While Madame Tussauds recently thought about having the replicas of Prince Harry (37) and Duchess (40) removed*, the figure of Queen Elizabeth* is one of the absolute highlights in almost every wax museum.
The British Queen is also represented in the Panoptikum in Hamburg. In Germany’s oldest wax figure cabinet, she keeps Princess Diana* (36, † 1997) Angela Merkel (67), Greta Thunberg (19) and Angelina Jolie (46) company. A detail of the Queen replica is currently causing a particular stir. A recent photo reveals what the regent is wearing under her hat – nothing!
Queen Elizabeth II: hats off! You’ve probably never seen the queen like this before
The wax doll of Elizabeth II is actually bald. If you take off her pink hat, the admittedly somewhat unusual sight is revealed.
In the course of reporting on the reopening of the cabinet, the photo was taken that Panoptikum boss Dr. Shows Susanne Faerber preparing the Queen figure. Royal fans on social networks reacted with amusement to shock at the fact that the monarch – for cost reasons, by the way – does not wear a full wig.
“Because we use human hair for our wax work, which is very expensive, a couple of the characters wearing hats don’t have a full hairstyle. […] It’s a wax figure, not the real person, you have to keep that in mind,” explained Dr. Susanne Faerber to the Daily Mail. In addition, the queen in Germany has a different meaning than in Great Britain, where the royal family* should be treated more sensitively, the director added. You can’t quickly forget the sight of the hairless monarch. *24royal.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
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