To find this a tad annoying. 36 year old American woman moves to the UK and begins developing a British accent overnight.

[Rainbunny]

To be clear, I like MM and and I'm very glad she married Harry but if she's really started with the whole accent thing it's silly. I'm afraid it comes across as a bit "put upon" and fake to me. She should be proud of her own accent, it's perfectly nice.

People "adopting" accents because they think it makes them sound better is just one of those silly things that bug me. I'm very sure I'm being petty about it but it annoyed me when Madonna did it as well. It's one thing to naturally develop an accent over the years but she's barely been here five minutes!

www.thecut.com/2018/07/meghan-markle-british-accent-video.html

I spent 3 weeks in the states as a teenager, living with my American family.... I was surrounded by American accents, by the end of the 3 weeks I was having to make a conscious effort to talk with out an American accent.... I found it very bizarre! But it happens..

I absorb accents. I had Scouse flatmates for a few months and it took a huge effort not to adopt their accent and look like I was taking the piss.

My accent changes depending on who I'm talking to at the time. I think it's a bit of a subconscious defence mechanism. I moved a lot as a child and got picked on for whatever accent I had that didn't fit.

My mum does it - makes me cringe! But she cant seem to help picking up other peoples accents when they are having a conversation!

I tend to pick up accents of the people I'm talking to without realising. It happens when I call my friend who lives in America - and she doesn't notice sometimes!

I had an accent when I was little and when we moved and I got bullied for it I changed it to a more local one. Since then I seem to pick up accents incredibly quickly where ever I go and I dont even know I'm doing it.

Sounds American to me. That video is hilarious, 'Hi Sarah, I'm Meghan'

Ariela this is so true - my husband is from Singapore and whenever he is with his brothers & sisters his accent comes back with a vengeance!

I did this not American though.
I worked abroad & lived, worked & socialised with two girls from London.
My sister came over to see me 3 weeks after I'd been out there & told me to "stop talking like a bloody cockney!" I didn't even realise I was & that was only after a short time, so I can believe MM is picking up an accent after a year!

I thought we had done with negative threads about MM. What's next? Complaining that she's still breathing?

I do this when I speak to Scottish people. I genuinely can't help it, even though I'm sure it's going to get me punched some day. It is an affliction, and best ignored.

@lostteddy she sounded American to me.

I’m another accent slut. But only certain ones. Can’t do scouse at all but if I lived in the NE I’d be doing that accent so quickly it would be embarrassing. I’ve happily lost a lot of the accent I grew up with since I haven’t lived there for over 20 years but a friend recently said my current accent was “all over the place”! I think he’s right

It might not be fake. Google linguistic convergence. Its a thing. You adapt your language to fit in with your social group.

What BossWitch says.

People do it instinctively and unwittingly when they have a real desire to fit in.

When people maintain an accent over a period of many years among people who speak differently, it shows a psychological reluctance to be in that place.

It's not necessarily putting on an act, though perhaps as an actress, she is able to adopt a different accent more easily and confidently than most people.

Firstly, it's hardly a British accent, there is a bit of a British twang but she still sounds American.

Secondly, she is surrounded by Brits now and if she is anything like me she will kind of absorb the accent she hears. I speak differently to all kinds of people depending on the accent.

Thirdly, she might be trying to pick up a British accent. She is going to be British very soon, is now a British duchess and obviously sees herself staying here for the rest of her life.

Some people do put on accents easily. Dh does. He was working in London with a couple of American colleagues and he started talking about 'dadabases' i.e. pronouncing t's as d's. It was really annoying

So yes YABU. Leave her alone.

My dad used to do this. When his brother, long settled in Canada, visited, he became a Canadian! As a small child, I was confused because they looked very alike!

I do this, I really can't help it.

I’m American and have lived in the UK for the better part of 10 years. I don’t have a British accent, well not to British ears, but I did intentionally switch to British pronunciation (I say baasil not bayyysil, for instance). But when I travel back to the US people who don’t know me think I’m British. I stayed in an Airbnb for a week with a woman who after 5 days of talking with me was shocked to learn I was actually American! It isn’t really intentional but you do sort of adjust your pronunciation to be more understandable. But no it doesn’t happen overnight. Perhaps she’s had elocution lessons though? I could have used those. Even my 5 year old mocks me for saying tu-na instead of chu-na.

define 'overnight'

Oh give her a break.

Meghan is an actor so she’ll be adept at picking up and using accents and inflections
Plus it is RP English not much of an accent to master at all
And she’s immersed In RP English so hardly surprising there’s linguistic convergence

I couldn't hear an English accent. She sounded Canadian American to me. I think a couple of her phrases were English.

I have a mixed accent. american, australian, deaf. I have no idea I'm doing it. I've just lived here many years.

What’s a British accent?

I don’t think she sounds British at all?!

There's no such thing as a "British" accent so YABU. I can't imagine why anyone would get worked up about this either.