“People keep on asking me what I’m going to do next, and I think I’ll probably spend a week sitting on the sofa in grey tracksuit pants watching Rocky videos,” she said with a laugh.

The Maitland woman has “mixed feelings” about her Year as a Fairytale project coming to an end on April 30.

“I’m feeling quite ambivalent,” she said. “As much as I want to finish the project, I think I’ll miss this persona enormously.

“I’m looking forward to getting back into 21st century clothing. But yeah, I’ve got no idea what I’m going to wear.

“I was looking through my clothes and it’s kind of a weird feeling – it’s like sorting through a dead person’s wardrobe. 

“I feel like I’ve lost one self and I don’t know which one will emerge in its place.”

Ms Hopcroft decided to dress as the last Queen of France every day for a year as a way of promoting Maitland as a cultural city, and she thinks it has worked.

“Most people think it’s as weird as hell, but strangely effective,” she said. “I mean you can’t ignore it.”

“It’s been a nice way of grabbing attention for Maitland and pivoting the conversation towards creativity.”

As well as helping to achieve goals for Maitland, Ms Hopcroft said the project had changed her.

“Physically it’s toughened me up, it’s quite an endurance event,’ she said. “I take a bottle of water with me everywhere so I’m constantly in survival mode.

“But psychologically, you know how there is two ways you can be powerful, you can either go around in a suit of armour and ignore nasty things, or you can just not care – I’ve hit the second. That’s the good thing about going around dressed like this, I just don’t give a stuff about people’s reactions.”

But would she do it again?

“Not in my life,” she said. “I want to thank everybody that has supported the project, because obviously it is a bit confronting having to deal with me when I’m like this.

“I would like to do some other large scale performance event that’s linked towards promoting Maitland as a creative city, but I don’t know what that’s going to look like yet.

“I was actually thinking of making my house into a giant artwork, because I’ve made my body into a tourist attraction, why not the house?”