Our Royal Majesty used to have a cut glass aristocratic idiolect. ('accent' to you and me!) Listen to some of the old recordings when they air them on the Teev. Now all is changed. When she read 'Her' speech in the Lords yesterday (the one that nice Mr Cameron put together for her) the sentences came out in something like drawing room demotic. I doubt it's a deliberate change of manner. It's nowhere near Essex. Must be something to do with the Zeitgeist?
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