I was born and raised in Liverpool with a Scouse accent but woke up one day sounding like the Queen due to rare condition with only 100 known patients EVER
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A woman who was born and raised in Liverpool has revealed how she woke up one day to find her Scouse accent gone - with her voice sounding like the Queen instead. Rose Griffiths, 74, experienced a stroke in August 2015 during a shift at Asda, suffering a fall and being rushed to hospital.
![[Rose, 74, had woken up with a number of different accents, including Russian and German]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/16/16/94174411-14292605-image-a-6_1737045248233.jpg)
The widowed mother-of-two found that she initially couldn't speak at all and was warned by doctors there was a chance she would never do so again. But when she first started to talk again, Rose bizarrely had developed a Russian accent, which then changed to a Eastern European accent and finally a German accent.
![[Rose was diagnosed with the extraordinarily rare condition foreign accent syndrome (FAS)]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/16/16/94174403-14292605-image-a-7_1737045265648.jpg)
Eventually, her voice changed to 'posh' English, with Rose saying she now sounds 'like the Queen' - while her Liverpudlian twang never returned. Rose was diagnosed with the extraordinarily rare condition foreign accent syndrome (FAS), of which there have only been 100 known cases ever since the first diagnosis in 1907.
![[Rose said her experience of FAS was 'horrible' and that people were mean to her]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/16/16/94175247-14292605-image-a-11_1737045339697.jpg)
Speaking to The Telegraph, she said: 'I was born and bred in Liverpool city centre. But now I sound like the Queen. All I can say in my original voice is: "Oh ey!"'. Speaking with The Brain Charity, she added: 'It is horrible. Your intellect is all there but you can't say.
![[Rose's voice changed to 'posh' English, with Rose saying she now sounds 'like the Queen' - while her Liverpudlian twang never returned]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/16/16/94175249-14292605-image-a-13_1737045362855.jpg)
Rose Griffiths from Liverpool started 'speaking like the Queen' after experiencing a stroke. 'When I first started to talk, they thought I had a Russian accent. Then it changed to an Eastern European accent, and then a German accent. 'While the accents were strange, my daughters (Lisa, 50, and Kellie, 48) were just so glad I was able to speak to them again. They were marvellous and never gave up on me.
![[Eventually, Rose taught herself to read and write again and now enjoys singing in a choir with The Brain Charity]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/16/16/94175253-14292605-Eventually_Rose_taught_herself_to_read_and_write_again_and_now_e-a-14_1737045402679.jpg)
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