[Paal Gulli]

"And the upper crust were faking a German accent so as to make their German Monarchs feel more at home,..."

Old Queen Vic was the 4th successive Hanoverian monarch to be born in England. I doubt she needed being made to feel at home.

[Eleutheria5]

Sure, but by then it was indelibly an upper crust shtick, just like the Spanish courtiers’ lisp. Russian aristocracy used to speak French better than Russian.