Royal style & gossip: make every day Tiara Tuesday!

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And I shouldn't have to say this anymore but will do so for any newbies - let's keep our critiquing to the clothes and not the women wearing them.

The Beeb really shouldn't be doing pieces like that, how sad. Anyone's accent is likely to change a little when permanently surrounded with different voices all speaking a particular way.

My accent changes when I travel around Ireland or the UK. I don't do it on purpose. It just happens.
DH and dcs go /

My accent changes when I visit relatives elsewhere and you pick up dialect too. Just human nature.

That aside I think she comes across so well in those videos, really warm if not slightly nervous. She's had a rough time lately, I hope the coming months are happier for her.

I agree BeverlyGoldberg Meghan comes across as very friendly and warm on her walkabouts.

queenofarles what is the name of that biography please? Ive googled and looked on Amazon but can't find anything by that author that's specific about Jackie and Lee.

(I always read these threads by the way, just don't have much to add other than I admire Kate and don't feel the Diana love).

I've finally caught up with the thread, they move so fast!
So many people I know find they pick up accents and phrases when in different parts of the country or around people who talk differently. I really feel for MM, she fell in love and is expecting her first child and almost daily there's another piece with her family slagging her off, the public complaining about the cost of her clothes, opinion pieces on everything from whether she should reconcile with her father to criticising how she touches her own body. If I was her I'd want to hide until long after I'd had the baby. I found dressing a bump so hard. Lots of times I put on an outfit and felt good only to see photos later and realise I'd got it oh so wrong

If I've been binge watching Netflix I've been known to pick up accents of characters! So easily done and pretty natural i would have thought. If I was in the public eye I might make a more conscious effort to reign of in, but MM has a lot to think about at the moment.

Should have said, Rein it in

For an extreme example of accent variation see the actress Gilliam Anderson - she speaks with a cut-glass English accent when interviewed here but has her American Scully accent when interviewed over there!

There's a name for it - something like duodialectism?

@NigellasGuest After binging on The Crown last year I started to sound more like HM - "oh what a lovely hice you hev" etc!

Don't ask me how i sounded after Peaky Blinders!!

Bidialectal.
Being proficient in two dialects of the same language.
So Meghan is bidialectal- North American and posh British.

Meghan still sounds pretty American to me, albeit not as Californian as she once might've been. But that may also have been tempered by years living in Toronto.

Accents do change with surroundings for a lot of people. I grew up in the US South. I have a good "ear" which makes for a somewhat malleable accent. After just a few months in Scotland, I listened to a recording of my voice. I sounded like Scarlet O'Hara doing a bad imitation of Miss Jean Brodie, and it was all unintentional.

When Madonna was going through her Mitford stage living in some country pile in Wiltshire she too adopted an English accent.

NigellasGuest the book is Jackie ,Janet &lee by Randy Taraborrelli,
It’s on Amazon Uk ,

I don't think people always purposely adopt an accent. I think it can just happen.
Madonna would have a very "good ear" musically so perhaps it just happened organically ?

God the BBC must be short on stories... I couldn't give a fiddlers about MM's accent! Let's get back to the fashion please! Any events coming up?

I was at the exhibition of Diana's dresses today - tight on time, and first in the queue (by accident not planning!) at 10. I whizzed straight through to the dresses and had a lovely 10/15 minutes before I was joined by others.

It was surprisingly moving - I too loved seeing Diana's writing saying 'Yes please' - I was also surprised at the difference in sizing over the years. She was one tall lady. Of course, I know this, but it really brought it home.

Loved seeing the tiaras too.

Shame I didn't catch any other MNers there!

Thanks queenofarles I think I will read that!

In my time I've had a Somerset accent, a sethakrican (South African) accent, a London accent and a vaguely home counties accent. I am incapable of NOT picking up the accent of people surrounding me so I suspect given she's an actress it's even worse for her. I am so sick of the Meghan bashing currently. I think Queenoftheandels should instigate the rule of this thread on the national press!!

Hear hear!!!

Found you all again!

I have managed to stave off the comedy local accent where I live but I definitely don't sound the way I used to when I first moved to the US. When I'm on the phone to my mum I switch back to my native south side of Dublin so maybe I'm bidialectical (polishes thumbnail). Americans tend to think I'm Australian. I can hear myself and I sound weird to my own ear sometimes.

One of my DDs picked up the local twang so badly that her fellow university students (all American) had no idea what she was saying.

The pushchair is a Macleran. I had the same one. It’s a cracking pushchair actually. Easy to fold and comfy.