People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1894 — They Have Allen Accents. [ARTICLE]

They Have Allen Accents.

With the single exception of the emperor and empress of Austria, there Is no European monarch who does not speak with a foreign accent the language of the people over which he oi she reigns. Even the comte de Paris speech indicates the fact that he wae brought up by a German mother, whik the comtesse’s accent is Spanish. That of the English royal family is German, and the same must be said of the house of Romanoff, of Denmark, of Queen’ Marguerite of Italy, and of the reigning houses of Holland and Belgium The reigning family of Sweden speak Swedish with French accent, while that of the present king of Portugal is distinctly Italian.