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

She will have been attending classes and no doubt speech/language and appropriate conversation have been one of them.
She will also be surrounded by people who speak like that all day long and so it would be pretty hard to not ‘act the part.’
She seems lovely in that video

Leave her alone, fgs.

I'd put money on her having to take elocution lessons along with all the other stuff she's being taught… how to sit, dress, eat etc. I feel sorry for her, her life will have changed drastically in comparison to before she married Harry.

She sounds like she’s softened and flattened her accent but I don’t think she sounds English. Plus, she’s an actress maybe she’s researching a role

Don’t be daft about Canadian accents - most of them sound almost exactly like American accents!

That video didn't sound British to me. Am I the only one who's hearing an American accent?

Nope, I thought she sounded American as well!

Pesky Americans. Coming over here and stealing our accents

Actually we stole your whole bloody language.

Hilarious. I’ve lived in the UK for 21 years now and still have my lovely canadian accent. Accents don’t change THAT quickly

She’s probably had elocution lessons.

A Canadian accent sounds nothing like our southern neighbours 😮

She is an actor so presumably can do many accents?

She sounds like an American to me. Maybe with a softer accent than before but definitely not English.

What do you expect? She's an actress (so they say) and is playing her most lucrative role to date.

I pick up accents. It’s very embarrassing.

Not all actors can do accents. Martin Freeman in Black Panther, anyone?

My dad spoke with a quite rp accent even though he lived his childhood in Sunderland. However, he picked up languages like a sponge and was often asked what part of Hamburg he came from when speaking German with Germans.

still sounds American to me .

It's unavoidable. When I was a child we lived abroad, but we and our friends used to travel back to the UK for around four months every two years. We didn't think we had any accent, but it was very noticeable when anyone came back from the UK because their accents suddenly sounded posher to our ears. Within a relatively short time people lost that accent, but it shows how quickly you can pick up an English accent without trying in the least. And Meghan Markle has been in England for an awful lot longer than four months.

does no one else mums do this even in restaurents haha.be it French or Italian she suddenly take on the accent.we all giggle and sit in wait for her to order first so we can take the mic.
my in laws are from Yorkshire,and the other half from "posher" areas and when mum and dad are in there company there accents revert right back.
and ive an uncle that moved to America to marry and when he comes home and is amongst his brothers and sisters his accents switches really quickly

Lostteddy I agree, she sounded American to me too, an American putting on their 'telephone voice' but not an English accent just yet!

@ramonaquimby maybe not to you, but I couldn’t tell the difference between my friend from Toronto and one from New York when I was studying in Montreal!

Just like I suspect you’d not be able to differentiate between Manchester and Yorkshire

I once got asked by an Australian nurse where in Australia I was from, I'm from Surrey, unconsciously copying accents is definitely a thing.

I went to Canada for 6 weeks and came back with a twang that took me a while to lose . She's actually living here and so I'm not surprised if she's picking up a british lilt in her voice.

When I’m speaking to someone who has an accent different to mine I have to make an extreme conscious effort not to mimic them. It’s mortifying. I literally can’t control it unless I focus very hard.

That still sounded American to me, but maybe in a softer east coast way.
I'm another who picks up accents, I did it in my native language, if I spoke to family in one part of the country I'd sound like them, or people in my home town I'd sound like them. I've lived in the U.K. for 15 years but sound American most of the time unless we go to my husbands home town (or talk to in-Laws the phone) then I get their accent

Well I guess it has been a few days since the last bash Meghan thread...!

I do this. It's not conscious at all. It's to do with a desire to fit in.

If I moved to the states, I'd have an American accent in a matter of hours.