On Royal Land, finding out about the Royal stories...

Trips in Europe are rarely complete without visits to the royal palaces and hearing stories about the monarchies. It is the same when you visit China, Vietnam, India. However, living on a royal land somehow makes me view modern films on the royal stories with a special eye. The upcoming The King's Speech would definitely be one of the films I am going to watch. But let's talk about his granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II first.

Over the semester, Queen Elizabeth II's pronunciation has been dicussed a couple of times.
Has her pronunciation changed? Has she learnt to speak more like the middle class? To try to be closer to her people? Or it is a misconception to compare her change with only the old and new BBC standards, since on the whole, the way that British people speak has also changed? Variationist sociolinguistics do such work to discover the dynamics between people of different status.

It is one of the links which I love too, as it transforms me into the olden days. The first televised Christmas broadcast in UK in 1957! (note, it is 1957 again!)

Let's listen to the Queen again in her recent 2010 Christmas broadcast.

It is obvious that her pronunciation has changed but does it necessarily mean she was trying to be more commoner? Perhaps, perhaps not. Try thinking about how our own speech style has changed over the course of our lives!

PS: I like the 2009 , because I have never known that she actually makes addresses to the Commonwealth nations as well. Notice that some of the Commonwealth nations have very similiar school uniforms as our schools.