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When the 16-year-old Alexandra of Denmark first met Queen Victoria's daughter Vicky, the latter reported to her mother that Alexandra "spoke English without the slightest accent". However, Alexandra's biographer Georgina Battiscombe states that she spoke English "with a very heavy Danish accent and continued to do so until the day of her death".
It's possible that Alexandra was on her very best behaviour when she met the Crown Princess as a 16 year old girl and was extra careful with her pronounciation of her (presumably) recently acquired knowledge of English. Later in life, when she no longer had to make an impression, she may have simply lapsed into what,for her, may have been more natural and instinctive ways of talking hence the re-emergence of her native accent. Both accounts therefore may have been equally valid.
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