PRINCE Harry appears to have dropped his plummy accent to speak in “Estuary English” on his new £30m Spotify podcast.
According to behavioural expert Judi James, Harry did everything he could to sound cool during the podcast, changing his voice to sound “pretty much mid-everything: mid-Atlantic, mid-London and mid-Estuary English”.
Estuary English is the modern variant of a traditional working class London accent which formed when those with “cockney” accents moved out of south and east London into areas along the Thames estuary.
Famous speakers include the likes of Russell Brand, James Cordon and Adele – with Judi suggesting that at points Harry’s pronunciation “would probably sound right in the Queen Vic in EastEnders”.
She picked out his pronunciation of 2020 as “twenny-twenny”, want to as “wanna”, and look as “luck” as perfect examples of Harry’s new way of speaking which she described as “newly seductive”.
Harry isn’t the only one to show off a new accent on the podcast – son Archie appeared to have developed a US accent when the privacy-obsessed pair dragged the 19-month-old on to wish listeners “happy new year”.
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