Etiquette Expert Reviews Etiquette in TV & Movies | Vanity Fair
Myka Meier, founder and director of Beaumont Etiquette, reviews how accurately television and film portray etiquette in scenes from ‘Princess Diaries,’ ‘Downton Abbey,’ ‘The Crown,’ ‘Pride & Prejudice,’ ‘Bridgerton,’ ‘Pretty Woman,’ ‘The Gilded Age,’ ‘Titanic’ and ‘A League of Their Own.’
00:00 Intro
00:12 Princess Diaries
00:51 Downton Abbey
03:11 The Crown
05:10 Pride & Prejudice
06:00 Bridgerton
07:06 Pretty Woman
08:30 The Gilded Age
09:34 Titanic
10:59 A League of Their Own
Instagram: @MykaMeier
Website: http://www.beaumontetiquette.com/
Director: Frank Cosgriff
Director of Photography: Brad Wickham
Editor: Matt Colby
Etiquette Expert: Myka Meier
Line Producer: Jen Santos
Associate Producer: Jess Gordon
Production Manager: Marilee Hodge
Production Coordinator: Jamal Colvin
Casting Producer: Nick Sawyer
Camera Operator: Matthew Dinneny
Sound Mixer: Ian Eickstein
Post Production Supervisor: Marco Glinbizzi
Post Production Coordinator: Andrea Farr
Assistant Editor: JC Scruggs
Special Thanks: Beaumont Etiquette
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@FernandaDrumond-u2o
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 pm
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 ✨👠
@lvelaughlovelunch123
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 pm
This is literally William hansons video
@marcelagarcia3925
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 pm
Honest question: is "like so" correct English?
@michaelcobb1559
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 pm
Also, the Queen should not have cut the scone in half with a knife, she should have just used her hands to break it apart.
@reginelinser5690
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 pm
You are confusing the Cambridge Cross with the Sussex Slant.
@pippins.muddy.paws1
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 pm
I clicked this knowing it would be William and was disappointed
@autodidactpolyhistor
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 pm
She got the Cambridge cross wrong. Cambridge cross is crossing at the ankles not the entire leg.
@yinhonglin9592
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 pm
Who is more appropriate? William Hanson or you?😅
@Alaron19
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 pm
Barbie lied to me about the pinky😭
@KitC916
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 pm
She kind of looks a little like Scarlett Johannson. But her eyebrows are a little off.
@desertdaisymarie6951
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 pm
The point of the Queen picking up the saucer was for self protection..
@karenmatute4337
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 pm
all of these rules have me overwhelmed XD
@Thingsyourollup
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 pm
I could care less about the manners rich people think I should have. This lady looks like a United Healthcare fangirl.
@e.l.2734
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 pm
I love how etiquette always makes so much sense. It's really the apex of organization and consideration.
@indigosky1002
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 pm
I'm sorry, but I was practicing the teacup hold without a teacup and then felt like I'd lowkey be flipping people the bird.
@biblionerd
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 pm
The legs crossing thing is interesting to me because when I was younger, I took cotillion classes, and they taught us to never cross our legs, only the ankles. I wonder if the etiquette with that is regionally dependent within the US and that's why she has a different answer to that.
@CalTxDude
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 pm
Informative and enjoyable.
Myka Meier is a delight!
@CalTxDude
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 pm
"A lady reveals nothing." LoL
@Woman_In_The_Water
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 pm
Did she misspeak in the section about handles being invented by the Saxons? Did she mean Saxe-Coburg? Very odd.
@SkeeterHowitzer
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 pm
You have a brassy, and either eastern European or ashkenazic, character that is at odds against the topic which you have discussed. On second thoughts, maybe it is Mongoloid ancestry (which is found in eastern European and ashkenazic also) that makes you to seem to be so alien.
I, bein descendant of nearly all Anglo-Norman landlo'wards' families, instinctively perceive you as an intruderesse.
@trukeesey8715
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 pm
Listenin at .75 speech for health.
@phoenixgate007
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 pm
I beg to differ. I was actually in Paris, for the first time ever. I was eating escargot, and it actually slipped out of the little holder and shot across the restaurant. Luckily, no one was hurt! I was horrifically embarrassed. I never thought it could happen in real life!
@Literallyarealhuman
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 pm
that scene in downton abbey is more about reminding viewers of that changing times theme
@CrimsonCateye
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 pm
I'd argue Genovia etiquette may be specific to a country that doesn't exist in real life
@Victoria-nm9vc
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 pm
I just realized i hate the idea of etiquette
@MTHz17
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 pm
Maybe in RP, they would say scone like how they’d say gone but in London, we would say scone like the word cone.
@ffotograffydd
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 pm
Why are US Americans so obsessed with etiquette?! 😂
@Sakezaf
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 pm
So… shouting "GRACEFULLY AND GRANDLY" at random people is inappropriate?
@Umamah-20
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 pm
I never knew that we needed etiquette experts 😂 wth
@Ipomoea_Alba
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 pm
Micheal Myer teaches me about etiquette?
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