As the daughter of Sir Reginald Adrian Berkeley Sheffield, 8th baronet, descendant of Charles II and owner of a 300-acre estate, we expected cutglass vowels and a finishing school drawl.
But, instead, the words came tumbling out in Estuary English. She uttered 12 'you knows', four 'sort ofs' and six 'reallys' - four of them in a single sentence. How on earth, I wondered, does a baronet's daughter end up talking like the Clinique girl in the Bluewater shopping centre?
As the daughter of Sir Reginald Adrian Berkeley Sheffield, 8th baronet, descendant of Charles II and owner of a 300-acre estate, we expected cutglass vowels and a finishing school drawl. But, instead, the words came tumbling out in Estuary English. S