A 70 year hairstyle: the story behind the late Queen’s symbolic silhouette
telegraph.co.ukPrincess Margaret and with the hairstyle that underpinned her life in hair.Neat, bobbed and set in curls, despite her revolving technicolour wardrobe, Queen Elizabeth II’s hair was the one constant in her style armoury, quite literally the crowning glory to her enduring image.
It was a look that is instantly identified from every viewpoint, from the back of an adoring crowd to a tiny postage stamp. The shape of her hair was honed not long after her Coronation in 1952.
Princess Diana’s hairstylist, Sam McKnight refers to the look as the ‘Italian Boy’ haircut as seen on the likes of Sophia Loren. “It was a shorter curled style with more volume at the sides.
It’s a look that many women of the Queen’s generation have kept their whole lives,” he explains.This now emblematic shape was depicted in season two of The Crown - a scene in which Queen Elizabeth is seen defending her “tidy and sensible” new haircut, deeming it “very a la mode” to a less impressed Prince Philip, who teases her over the practical new style that could “always double as a helmet,” to which she responded unwaveringly, “well, I like it.” “She had the confidence to stick with a style that stepped up to the job.
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