Continuing my Top 10 Queens from the first 10 seasons of RuPaul's Drag Race
#2:
Latrice Royale
https://www.instagram.com/latriceroyale/
She is Latrice and she's the whole show; the large and in charge, chunky yet funky bold and beautiful Latrice Muthafuckin' Royale is one of the most popular queens of all time. With more than 1 million instagram followers she sits somewhere in the top 20% of all queens to ever walk into a werk room, and is one of only 2 plus sized queens on that list (The other being Kim Chi).
She broke one trend (the last queen to enter was the eventual winner for seasons 1-3) and started another (for seasons 4-7 the queen who survived the bottom of the final 5 went home the next episode), she was the first (of only 2) African American queens to be named Miss Congeniality. And one of only a handful of queens to win 2 challenges and not make the top 3 on her season. She is also the Grande Dame of All Stars as at 46 during AS4 she is the oldest contestant to appear in that franchise. AS4 also brought her another distinction as the only queen to be eliminated, and after returning remain for more than 2 episodes, even surviving another descent into the bottom. This also means is the most eliminated queen in drag race herstory being eliminated in Season 4, AllStars 1, and twice in All Stars 4.
But perhaps even more than what went on her body Latrice is remembered for what came out of her mouth. "Good God Get a Grip Girl" "Jesus is a biscuit; let him sop you up" "The Shade of it all" are now iconic phrases within the Drag Race lexicon, and let's not ignore her sweet delicate little laugh HaHA
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