Meet the Mom of 2 Whose Queen Elizabeth-Inspired 'Baroness' Persona Has Gone Viral on TikTok (Exclusive)

The actor tells PEOPLE about how 'The Crown' inspired the prim persona that’s lighting up TikTok

TikTok star Alli Hurley’s thoughts on how someone like Queen Elizabeth would navigate modern motherhood came to her in a dream.

Soon after the actor, writer and musician from North Carolina welcomed her first baby in 2021, her “Baroness” TikTok character was also born. Armed with a British accent and a dry sense of humor, Hurley acts out how a posh mom from the past would tackle parenthood today. From parent-teacher conferences to Trader Joe’s runs, sick days and connecting with friends, her hilarious videos have since gone viral.

“I was literally having dreams at night that I had all this help, I lived like a royal or something and I had a butler and a governess. My husband and I were sitting on the couch and I was like, ‘I really need a creative outlet,’ ” Hurley, who recently welcomed her second child, tells PEOPLE. “And I love The Crown and I love that high-class accent. And so I said to my husband, ‘Can you just hand [the baby] to me and we'll just make a little video pretending this is our reality?’ ”

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Hurley’s “How to Raise a Baby” video hit TikTok in March 2022, and her hilarious take on how the uptight Baroness would bond with a newborn has since been viewed more than two million times.

"What a lovely day, I think I'd like to see my child today. Yes, bring her in,” she says in a clipped cadence in the video. “Oh, hello, how nice to see you again. You look well, very small, very small indeed,” she tells the sleeping infant. “You seem to be just as small as you were yesterday. How nice,” Hurley says, before handing the baby back after the newborn made a “funny face.”

"Good luck! See you tomorrow! Goodbye,” she says.

The spoof calls back to how a young Queen Elizabeth was portrayed in the hit Netflix royal drama, which the new mom of two says shaped her take.

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"We were watching a lot of The Crown, early seasons. When Queen Elizabeth was young and having her kids and you see all these scenes where she's in her dressing room and she's got 10 ladies waiting, zipping up her gown,” Hurley says.

“From what I know of Queen Elizabeth, she was very down to earth and even still, I think it was so fascinating to me, the way that they live. And how Claire Foy does her accent, it's just so beautiful. I can't get enough of it. I just could listen to it all day long,” she says of the star's Emmy Award-winning turn in seasons 1 and 2 of The Crown, which has rotated its cast to reflect the royals aging through the decades.

Acknowledging that there’s always more to learn about royalty, Hurley tells PEOPLE that she grew up “really loving Harry Potter and just being very fascinated with British people in general” and that the series inspired by the lives of the British royal family on Netflix (where season 6 will soon debut) inspired her Baroness character.

“I just think it's so intriguing that they're such an old family and there's still this lifestyle to this day. I think it's a little bit more modernized now, but I've just been very intrigued by them,” she says of the royal family.

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Voicing gratitude for the warm reaction the deadpan Baroness has received from viewers, the TikToker says the platform proved to be an ideal creative outlet as her family has expanded.

“When you're pregnant and postpartum, I just wasn't getting any auditions and so I was like, ‘Oh, this will be fun to do.’ But I just got such encouragement from other moms who would say like, ‘Oh wow, wouldn't this be great?’ But just also people that were kind,” Hurley says of the community she found. “It was just so nice to meet people online and hear from other people that they also love the accent or they had these same wishes that they just could hire somebody to take over for a couple of days.”

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