Sophie, Countess of Wessex

The following year, Sophie attended a reception at Buckingham Palace hosted by the Queen to celebrate the work of the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust.

The Countess took to the podium to make a speech where her style was notably different to her television appearance.

The expert continued: “Compare this to her speech during a reception at Buckingham Palace and we see a much more formal speaker, invisibly bound to the podium, sticking closely to the script laid out in front of her.

“Here her natural sense of self-deprecation is on hold, and she breaks up her sentences with perfectly placed pauses, so that not a single word of her carefully constructed content is missed out.