The implication is that the Red Queen always looked like it does in this movie. As these movies are years apart they can't reuse the same girl actress as she outgrows the role.
You can see it in Retribution's recap of the previous 4 films, when it comes the moment that is about to show Red Queen's holographic display from RE1, they cut to new footage they shot with the new actress, specifically to replace the old. Meaning, they communicate there and then, you are supposed to think that RE1's Red Queen always looked like RE5's.
Same goes for this new film that finally explores her backstory, you are supposed to get from that, that is how the Red Queen always looked.
And that's why the accent remains a constant throughout the films; if they could keep the same appearance as well, they would, but it's not possible.
The brief shot of Gollum in the first Lord of the Rings movie also looks a lot different than his appearances in the later movies, but you are not supposed to think that his appearance changed, merely that the look and technology developed further since the first one. Also in the Hobbit, there is a scene with Bilbo that was also in the first movie, but now played by a different actor. You are not supposed to think that there was a magic spell cast by a wizard that changed his appearance, merely that they recast the role to someone better fitted to play a character of that age, and the "canon" look is the new one.
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