Queen’s bald waxwork will get hair-raising spring clear utilizing hammer and nails
A waxwork of the late Queen Elizabeth II is seen bald under her trademark bright pink hat in behind the scenes snaps from Panoptikum waxwork museum in Hamburg during its spring clean
Henriette Masmeier uses a hammer and nail to fix the hair of the wax figure of Queen Elizabeth II(Image: Georg Wendt/DPA/Cover Images)
A bald waxwork of the late Queen Elizabeth II is seen getting a hair-raising spring clean. Make up artist Henriette Masmeier can be seen using a hammer and nail to fix the hair of her late Majesty’s wax figure at a German waxwork museum.
In newly released photos, she can been intricately pinning hair in place on the late head of state, who is seen with a bare scalp at the The Panoptikum wax museum in Hamburg.
The late Queen can be seen seen in her full pink attire while Henriette combed the hair that protrudes from beneath her hat.
Her Hulk Hogan-style bald patch is covered up by her trademark hat when it is on display, but the museum sparked fury three years ago when photos first emerged of the waxwork without her headwear.
Managing partner Susanne Faerber said at the time: “As we are using real human hair for our waxworks which is very expensive, some figures which have hats don’t have complete hair. We just install the amount of hair which is visible for the visitors.”
When asked if she thought it’s disrespectful to put the bald monarch on display in this way, Faerber stressed that “it is a waxwork, not the real person, this should always be kept in mind.”
One user tweeted at the time: “Big shout out to Hamburg’s Panoptikum wax museum for an image that will now haunt my every waking hour.”
The Panoptikum, in Hamburg’s famous Reeperbahn district, was established by Dr Faerber’s great-great-grandfather in 1879.
It has more than 120 wax figures, also including Donald Trump, Pope Benedict XVI, climate activist Greta Thunberg, and former German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
In December, a waxwork of future monarch Princess Kate, which stands at 1.75 metres tall and wears a dark green sequined dress by designer Jenny Packham, but their replica of the famous figure has left some people scratching their heads.
During the annual renovation works, the figures are cleaned, their clothes are taken to dry cleaning shops, their hair gets washed, their faces are cleaned, they are protected with moth papers, and scratches are repaired.
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