u/erwachen

I was wondering if anyone else had thoughts or opinions on how so much of the dialogue in the French scenes is in English this season.

I've been rewatching s1&s2 of IWTV (huge stan of the show) and a lot of the scenes are in French, especially Nicky/Lestat scenes and Armand/Lestat scenes.

Season 3 is filmed in Canada where French is one of the official languages* but all of the scenes in France have actors speaking English dialogue, even the revolutionary ADR/background actor lines when Nicolas and Lestat are at the pub. I burst out laughing. There was something so deeply ironic and weird about "Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité!" and "Long live the revolution!" being shouted in English. It kind of killed the immersion. Even just something like background dialogue for period exposition being in French would help pull me back in.

*I have been anticipating people opining that this season's production avoided French because most of the talent pool they'd be casting from would be Quebecois (or Acadien, maybe) French speakers because they're in Canada. I'm keenly aware français québécois and français acadien are different from Continental French. However, there's tons of Quebecois and even anglophone Canadian actors who are trained to speak in this dialect and accent and play French people from Europe. Hell, Nicolas' actor is English and Sam Reid is Australian. Assad is English also and they all speak French in s2!

Did anyone else notice this in season 6? A palace staff member quotes then-Prince Charles asking if the Queen would like the mother of the future King of England to arrive in a Harrods van.

The term was also used at least twice before in the series to refer to Queen Elizabeth, but now I can't remember the exact examples. I thought the title had been out of use since 1707. Is it used informally by the BRF and people close to them, or were these slip-ups?

ETA: I want to clarify I am asking specifically about the usage of this term/title by the BRF and palace employees, not the average person. I'm super well aware that people around the world refer to the BRF monarchs as the Queens/Kings of England.