For once they cast a red-haired, Celtic actress to play Mary (a step up from Reign), but someone forgot to tell them that because of her upbringing, Mary spoke with a French accent. The actress speaks with a Scottish brogue, which isn't gonna work for authenticity in this film.
sharedid she really speak with a french accent though? I assume she must've learned english as a baby.
shareEverything I've read about that awful woman mentioned a French accent, so I assume there are historical sources.
I don't know if English was spoken much at the King of Scotland's court, wasn't Gaelic the language of the land at the time? Anyone know?
She was raised in France and would have spoken mostly French from The time she began any schooling up to her short period as Queen of France.
shareConsidering the usual amount of care that was put into the education of noble women, it was a miracle that Mary Queen of Scots even learned English and Gaelic!
Elizabeth's superb education was very much an exception.
i would hope that she had a Scottish accent with a little french lilt. Her mother made sure that she had an entourage of Scottish noble women, one of which was Mary Flemming's mother who was her governess until she had a child by the king of France. she had playmates of around her own age the 4 Marys and her 3 half brothers John,James and Patrick how long these boys stayed with her i am unsure, also she had a monk for her religious education.
she would have, must of heard the Scottish accent everyday as during this time it was impolite if you were in company to have silence, so books were read aloud, music played and sing etc would have gone on everyday all day.
It is recorded that she knew French, Latin, Greek, Spanish and Old Scots (not Gaelic). But her native language was French. Apparently, she didn't speak much English, when she did have to learn it prossibly had a bit of the broad Scots accent, perhaps a touch of french. If she spoke Scots in the movie we wouldn't know what was going on :)
The other day I was listening to an adapted screenplay for a 'Mary Queen of Scots' 1940s film that never got made. They portrayed her with a French accent in that. The adaptors did their homework. I'm just wondering had the film been made, would have they used an actress with a very English voice back then.
shareNot sure *shrugs*
shareBrogue? Try Edinburgh school-girl.
shareI hate her accent in this. Way too distracting.
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