Does anyone want a thread for people who are happy for Harry and Meghan? Thread 4

[Mummy195]

Hope you don't mind Dave.

I have no idea. The main thing I notice is the hope that she and Harry just shut up and don't do anything at all. Or that when they do anything it's attention seeking/publicity thirsty/thunder stealing.

Pick any of the above!!

I saw the clip this morning. Kate has always been well spoken by ye gods she sounded posh this morning! Yes she had spent a day with the maternity nurses bfore lockdown so made sense I s'pose, but it would be my worst nightmare.

I could not in a million years imagine Meghan doing it without being absolutely harangued.

I guess both Kate and Meghan just continuing to work with their charities/causes.

I wouldn't want a facetime with either of them personally but get some people would.

Somehow Kate always sounds so much posher than any of the other royals - how does that happen?!

I always think her accent sounds a tad forced.

I know plenty of women who speak like Kate. Plenty of my dcs friends do as well, I imagine due to the school they went to. Dh’s family often comment how posh my dcs sound, I can’t hear it myself 🤷🏻‍♀️

I like (what I know of) Kate very much, but I always wince when I hear her speak. Tone it down a bit! She sounds posher than the Queen and not in a good way.

It's interesting about children's accents vs their parents.
My children both speak quite 'well,' but went to ordinary state schools where many of their friends had "ordinary" accents. I can only assume they picked it up from me, as people say I sound posh.
Yet my friend from Liverpool, who has now lived in the US for over 15 years still sounds Scouse, but her kids sound as American as they come - although their US friends think they still sound British.

My dcs old head & deputy heads sounded posher than the Queen.

I know @CanIHaveAPenguinPlease but her sister and brother, who went to the same school and moved in similar circles, don't sound like that! It just doesn't sound very natural to me, and I'm
not referring to her social class. Diana and Fergie sounded very upper class but never forced.

Or maybe William does the opposite of "poshing up". I heard him refer to how George enjoys "drawring" and is a good "drawrer" recently

why make it public though? wouldn't it have been nicer if it had been kept private?

I think my DCs speak quite well but not posh at all. I do think Kate's has got more cut glass as time has gone on. Whereas the Queen's accent/voice has toned down enormously.

How else would you say 'drawing' other than 'drawring'? #notposh

I’ve asked for my last post to be deleted as I know my friend is on MN.

It’s ‘draw-ing’ no ‘r’

i talked very posh when I was little......then I went to school

Kate talks like lots of people I know. Also, I know I sound a lot posher when recorded than in real life.

Samcro - assume the woman was happy for it to be public. I think they all do quite a lot of private stuff but then of course they get criticised for not doing enough if people can't 'see' what they are doing. I don't think they can win really.

And by they I mean any in the RF.

mrscampbell you must move in very esteemed circles
No one I know talks like that and I do know some people who are v posh !

She does sound like a few people I met when a student. They were few and far between and usually at a ball of some sort. She does sound incredibly 'posh' or well spoken, as my mother would say.

I'm very Scottish. Not Glaswegian but have a strong Scottish accent.

My dcs say I have a “telephone voice” which apparently I also use depending on who I’m talking to. It must be subconscious as I’ve no idea I’m doing it.

I just think her voice is fairly typical of privately educated women [generalising a lot I know]

But I think the criticism of her voice being too posh is linked to how people used to comment on Carol being 'doors to manual' - a bit, know your place Kate.

Interesting comments re Kate's accent. I thought she sounded less "clipped" than usual and I put that down to her being much more relaxed when speaking in these situations. I think she gets nervous under the spotlight and clenches up a bit. Willian accelerates his speech when he's nervous.

But I think the criticism of her voice being too posh is linked to how people used to comment on Carol being 'doors to manual' - a bit, know your place Kate. I was just thinking that.

She does sound very posh. But I imagine if you are moving in the circles she does you would want to sound like them.

She did go to Marlborough. I doubt she had to learn not to say haitch or remember her t’s!