The Tiny Detail in Aunt Elizabeth's Hair You May Have Missed
Show us someone who didn't love quirky Aunt Elizabeth (played by Belinda Bromilow) in the series, and we'll show you a liar. The character was decidedly lovable, if not obscure — a fact that Coles playfully gave nod to with her hair.
"Certainly with Aunt Elizabeth, we had fun playing with the shape of her wigs, giving her some of the masculine pieces used during that time," she said. "Her hair had a lot of taxidermy in there as well — real, preserved butterflies, bees, beetles, feathers. If you get a close look, you'll see all kinds of things in her wigs, and was hysterical trying to figure out what to put in there next time. Certainly at the parties we would go to town with the bees and butterflies, the idea being that these butterflies flying around her would land on her head, live out their lives, and then just stay nestled happily there. Obviously, we didn't find that in any of our research so it was completely fictional — we just thought it would be fun."