#BritishAristocrats #MummyAndDaddy #TVStereotype
Hey there, fellow social media sleuths! 👋🕵️♀️ Have you ever wondered if British aristocrats actually call their parents ‘mummy’ and ‘daddy’ like they do on TV? 🤔 I mean, we’ve seen it time and time again in those period dramas and royal documentaries, but is it really true?
I’m genuinely curious about this because, let’s be honest, it’s a pretty adorable and endearing image, right? 🥰 But at the same time, I can’t help but wonder if it’s just a stereotype perpetuated by the media. 🤷♂️
So, has anyone out there witnessed this charming display of familial affection in real life, or is it all just a fictional construct for our viewing pleasure? And is this ‘mummy’ and ‘daddy’ phenomenon exclusive to aristocrats, or do all wealthy Brits partake in it? 🎩💷
Let’s get to the bottom of this together! Share your insights, experiences, or even some cheeky anecdotes if you’ve got ’em. Let’s unravel this mystery and have a laugh while we’re at it! 😄💬
Who knows, we might just uncover some surprising truths about British etiquette and family dynamics along the way. So, what do you say, dear detectives? Ready to dive into this delightful (and slightly quirky) investigation with me? Let’s get cracking! 🔍🔎 #JoinTheFun #MummyAndDaddyMystery
In fairness, my dad was a postman and my mum a nursery nurse – so but exactly aristocrats. When talking to my siblings we call our parents mummy and daddy. Called then mum and dad to their faces though, unless talking to one about the other.
Don’t know any aristocrats but average people do
Yes, but not just rich people, even really ordinary ones do, and in the British West Indies (I live in the Caribbean) not only do people call their parents Mummy and Daddy but if someone doesn’t know your name but knows your child, you get called ‘Samuel’s Mummy’ to your face.
Their Hapsburg jaws require it.
Married to an Englishman and can confirm him and his siblings call their parents mummy and daddy. Every time I see it pop up on texts it prompts a roasting session 🤣
I’m middle class and call my dad ‘daddy’. Can’t imagine calling him anything else. What are you supposed to say
Maybe. How the hell would we know… 😉
This isn’t limited to “rich” british people. Many english speaking british colonies also use these terms normally.
basically everyone in Britain is Peppa the Pig
I have a rich AF American Aunt who’s grown ass children call her Mommy.
Well, King Charles did do exactly that during his first speech as king.
I’m not remotely posh, and my family is from Boston – and yeah, our mother is called “mummy” or “mum,” and she and her sisters called my grandmother “mummy.” I think it’s an Irish/British ancestry thing?
Dad is just Dad though.
Yeah I do. I’m not an aristocrat but I’m definitely a posh twat.
When I was growing up and in my teens I went through a phase of being *very* embarrased by it, literally none of my friends called their parents that. I didn’t go to private school or boarding school or anything (maybe if I did, I would have met more people that did)
But now I’m an adult I’ve accepted that it’s just what I’m used to saying, couldn’t really give a shit what people think. One day my parents won’t be around, there are more important things than worrying about what I called them
Absolutely. Used to work for them.
I’m a non posh Brit and this is completely normal. So if it’s normal amongst the plebs, I assume the knobs still use it.
Forget British aristocrats, a lot of former colonies that speak English still do that.
I think it has less to do with being posh and more to do with hanging onto older ways of speaking.
Source: from a former colony.
What the bollocks? It’s completely normal to call your parents mummy and daddy. Nothing to do with aristocracy.
Yes. Source: am a posh twat.
23 year old black British born, poor as hell lived in London most of my life. I call my mum, Mummy from time to time and find some of my peers do as well. It’s mostly when I miss her or want to be endearing or something “Love you mummy.” On the phone now that I live on a different continent is pretty common
I’ve known British people that have used that, but they were not “rich” or “aristocrats”.
Not posh twat (just a twat), but called my parents Mummy and Daddy.
Moved on to Mum and Dad by about age 11.
Now lovingly call him Pop after a senile character in a TV show called the Singing Detective.
I call my parents ‘mummy and daddy’, and yeah, I’m posh, apparently.
Mater and Pater, if you please, my dear.
No, it’s ‘mater’ and ‘pater’ if you are really posh.
A girl I went to uni with used to. We were friends and omg it was a very wth moment when she called her mum mummy on the phone with this accent I’d never heard. I kinda knew she came from money because her parents bought her a flat to live in at uni, I didn’t realise how posh she was until that call though.
Then there was me, at uni with loans and bursary’s. She still did the usual, get a job after uni etc, she became a teacher.
“Mummy, if you don’t get off the phone right now, I’m leaving.” [Thirty-something daughter had arrived to go shopping with mummy. I was on the other end of the phone, a lowly assistant.]
[Had to call same daughter’s father.] “No, Daddy isn’t here right now. He’s in studio!”
She was a real bitca.
Good fellow, I say, do pardon me while I indulge in a spot of eye-rolling at the very notion that using “mummy” and “daddy” as adults is somehow… déclassé. Honestly, what a frightfully tedious idea.
I mean, really, what’s the alternative? Addressing one’s parents as “Mother” and “Father” like some sort of Victorian undertaker? How dreadfully dull. Where’s the fun in that, eh? No, no, I’ll stick with “mummy” and “daddy”, thank you very much. It’s a family tradition, old chap. A tradition that’s been passed down through generations of aristocrats, no less.
And another thing, what’s this nonsense about “growing up” and “being an adult”? Good heavens, I’ve been an adult for simply ages, and I still call my parents “mummy” and “daddy”. It’s not as if I’m still playing with toy trains and demanding a bedtime story, for goodness’ sake. I’m a grown man, with a title, with a estate, with a… with a decent tailor, at the very least. And let’s not forget, my dear fellow, that we’re British.
We’re the ones who invented stiff upper lips, and repressed emotions, and… and… well, good manners, for goodness’ sake. We’re not about to start getting all… emotional and… and… American on each other, are we? Perish the thought. Now, I know what you’re thinking, “But what about when you’re, say, 50 years old, and still calling your parents ‘mummy’ and ‘daddy’?” Well, my response to that is, “What’s the problem, old chap?” I’ll be 50, and still calling my parents “mummy” and “daddy”, and I’ll be doing it with a straight face, and a stiff upper lip, and a… and a decent glass of scotch in my hand, thank you very much.
And if anyone gives me any lip about it, I’ll simply give them a withering look, and say, “Good fellow, do pardon me, but I’m a duke, and I’ll call my parents whatever I bloody well please.” That usually shuts them up, eh? So, there you have it, my dear fellow. I’ll continue to call my parents “mummy” and “daddy”, and I’ll do it with pride, and with a healthy dose of sarcasm, and with… well, with a raised eyebrow, at the very least.^/s
They actually call them mama or ma and papa or pa.
Yes mummy and daddy is common, but believe me, there’s a circle of landed gentry who say ma and pa and that’s the real aristocracy.
It’s pronounced mumah, not mah-mah etc
Mater and pater, if you don’t mind.
Not in that class myself but I have a friend from university days who is the daughter of an English Earl, she refers to her parents as mummy and daddy in private settings though uses mum and dad in public. She’s in her mid thirties btw.
Yes. Not just aristocrats.
Not exclusive to the aristocracy, you’ll find it occasionally in southern middle class families as well. The more twee, the more likely.
They call them mama and dada.
Little kids in gas masks do the same too.
Aristocrat? Hell my main language is not English but we call our moms “mummy”
Charles III
I always thought the toffs said “maMAH” and “paPAH” with the accent on the second syllable.
I’ve heard the king do it. For whatever that’s worth…
Yes.
Source: Know some posh twats.
Non aristocrats in the US South sometimes do.
Most kids switch from mummy and daddy to mum and dad around the age of 10. Perhaps a little sooner, perhaps a little later. Not switching is the sign of a very sheltered upbringing.
Not an aristocrat, but my wife’s British co-worker used to call her parents “mummy” and “daddy”, so it def happens.