Editing Received Pronunciation (section)

==Notable speakers==
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[[File:Sir David Attenborough BBC Radio4 Desert Island Discs 29 Jan 2012 b01b8yy0.flac|thumb|David Attenborough's voice]]
[[File:Gyles Brandreth BBC Radio4 Desert Island Discs 14 January 2011 b00x8f2l.flac|thumb|Gyles Brandreth's voice]]
[[File:Stephen Fry voice.flac|thumb|Stephen Fry's voice]]
The following people have been described as RP speakers:
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* The [[British royal family|British Royal Family]]<ref name="Wells 2011">{{cite web |last=Wells |first=John |title=the evidence of the vows |url=http://phonetic-blog.blogspot.com/2011/05/evidence-of-vows.html |website=John Wells's phonetic blog |date=3 May 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Wells |first=John |title=Any young U-RP speakers? |date=11 July 2007 |url=http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/blog0707a.htm}}</ref>
* [[Julie Andrews]], actress and singer<ref>{{cite web |title=Twentieth-Century Divas: Julie Andrews - Dominic Broomfield-McHugh|url=https://podcast.gresham.ac.uk/1904814/episodes/15203380-twentieth-century-divas-julie-andrews-dominic-broomfield-mchugh |website=Graham College |date=8 November 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Wells |first=John |title=EE, yet again |url=https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/the-sound-of-julie-andrews-20150327-1m9e1c.html |website=The Sydney Morning Heradd |date=17 April 2015}}</ref>
* [[David Attenborough]], broadcaster and naturalist<ref>{{cite web |last=Wells |first=John |title=David Attenborough |url=http://phonetic-blog.blogspot.com/2010/11/david-attenborough.html |website=John Wells's phonetic blog |date=8 November 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Cho |first1=Juhyung |title=Vowel changes in the speech of Sir David Attenborough |journal=SNU Working Papers in English Language and Linguistics |date=1 January 2022 |volume=18 |hdl=10371/176946 |url=https://hdl.handle.net/10371/176946 |access-date=18 March 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Richard Attenborough]], actor and film director<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Cho |first1=Juhyung |title=Vowel changes in the speech of Sir David Attenborough |journal=SNU Working Papers in English Language and Linguistics |date=1 January 2022 |volume=18 |hdl=10371/176946 |url=https://hdl.handle.net/10371/176946 |access-date=18 March 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Emily Blunt]], actress<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.academia.edu/35650152 |title=Emily Blunt's kids are picking up their dad's American accent |last1=Matassa |first1=Giada }}</ref>
* [[Gyles Brandreth]], broadcaster, writer and former politician<ref>{{cite web |url=https://trufluency.com/7-best-english-podcasts-free-and-paid/ |title=7 Best English Podcasts (Free and Paid) |website=TruFluency |date=23 May 2022 |access-date=3 July 2023 |quote="Gyles Brandreth and Susie Dent are the hosts of Something Rhymes with Purple,&nbsp;... the speech of the hosts tends to show features of the Received Pronunciation (RP) English accent,&nbsp;..."}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gylesbrandreth.net/blog/2018/12/23/am-i-posh-is-david-dimbleby-are-you |title=Am I posh? Is David Dimbleby? Are you? |last=Brandreth |first=Gyles |date=23 December 2018 |website=GYLES BRANDRETH |access-date=3 July 2023 |quote="...{{nbsp}}I have a 'posh' accent.  In fact, I sound much less fruity and plummy than I used to do.  (So does The Queen, incidentally.)  I sound very like my father, and English middle class professional people of his generation (he was born in 1910) sounded like he sounded and I sound now."}}</ref>
* [[David Cameron]], former Prime Minister of the UK (2010–2016)<ref>{{cite web |last=Wells |first=John |title=EE, yet again |url=http://phonetic-blog.blogspot.com/2010/04/ee-yet-again.html |website=John Wells's phonetic blog |date=8 April 2010}}</ref><ref name="palmer"/>
* [[Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire]], aristocrat and writer<ref name="woods">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8684273/When-I-didnt-know-owt-about-posh-speak.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8684273/When-I-didnt-know-owt-about-posh-speak.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=When I didn't know owt about posh speak |first=Vicki |last=Woods |date=5 August 2011 |work=The Daily Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[Noël Coward]], playwright, composer and actor<ref name="radio4">{{cite web |author=<!-- not stated --> |date=<!-- not stated --> |title=BBC - Radio4 - Routes of English - Special - Talking Posh |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/routesofenglish/storysofar/posh.shtml |website=BBC |access-date=15 March 2025}}</ref>
* [[Judi Dench]], actress<ref name="lawson">{{cite web |last=Lawson |first=Lindsey |date=14 October 2013 |url=http://www.thevoicecafe.net/the-voice-cafe-blog/the-accent-with-few-native-speakers-in-Britain-RP |title=A popular British accent with very few native speakers |work=The Voice Cafe |access-date=12 December 2017}}</ref>
* [[David Dimbleby]], journalist and former presenter<ref>{{cite web|url=https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/research/article/download/2075/1716/7971}}</ref>
* [[Christopher Eccleston]], actor<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/christopher-eccleston-resisted-posh-accent-playing-dr-who-fh68wdfsrfk?region=global | title=Christopher Eccleston resisted 'posh accent' playing Dr Who | date=14 April 2015 }}</ref>
* [[Rupert Everett]], actor<ref name="Wells 2008blog"/>
* [[Lady Antonia Fraser]], author and historian<ref name="woods"/>
* [[Colin Firth]], actor<ref name="economist.com">{{cite news |url=https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2019/07/06/in-british-politics-posh-pronunciation-reigns |title=In British politics, posh pronunciation reigns |newspaper=The Economist}}</ref>
* [[Stephen Fry]], actor and writer<ref>{{cite web |title=RP: A popular British accent with very few native speakers |date=13 October 2014 |url=https://www.thevoicecafe.net/the-voice-cafe-blog/the-accent-with-few-native-speakers-in-Britain-RP |quote=Examples of speakers of the more "conservative" type of RP are Stephen Fry and Dame Judi Dench.}}</ref>
* [[Hugh Grant]], actor<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/yourvoice/accents_comments.shtml |title=BBC - Voices - Your Voice}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/estuary/parsons_ma.pdf |title=From "RP" to "Estuary English": The concept 'received' and the debate about British pronunciation standards}}</ref>
* [[Tom Hiddleston]], actor<ref name="palmer">{{cite news |last=Palmer |first=Bobby |date=23 March 2016 |title=We asked a psychologist why people find posh accents attractive |url=https://archive.thetab.com/2016/03/23/asked-psychologist-love-posh-accents-80094 |website=[[The Tab]] |access-date=17 March 2025}}</ref>
* [[Christopher Hitchens]], late author and journalist<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dialectblog.com/british-accents/ |title=British Accents |date=25 January 2011 |work=dialectblog.com}}</ref>
* [[Jeremy Irons]], actor<ref>{{cite web|title=Standard Upper-Class British(RP)|url=http://currentplayers.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/0/13500082/20141222155724020.pdf}}</ref>
* [[Boris Johnson]], former Prime Minister of the UK (2019–2022)<ref name="Wells 2008blog">{{cite web |last=Wells |first=John |title=RP back in fashion? |date=12 June 2008a |url=http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/blog0806a.htm}}</ref>
* [[Celia Johnson]], actress<ref name="fowler">{{cite web |last=Fowler |first=Christopher |author-link=Christopher Fowler |date=16 October 2020 |title=Accent! |url=https://www.christopherfowler.co.uk/blog/2020/10/16/accent |website=Christopher Fowler website |access-date=15 March 2025}}</ref>
* [[Vanessa Kirby]], actress<ref name="lawson"/>
* [[Gertrude Lawrence]], actress, singer, dancer and musical comedy performer<ref name="radio4"/>
* [[Nigella Lawson]], food writer and television cook<ref>{{cite web |author=<!-- not stated --> |date=10 December 2020 |title=Nigella Lawson is going viral for the bizarre way she pronounces "microwave" |url=https://www.thecoast.net.nz/news/nigella-lawson-is-going-viral-for-the-bizarre-way-she-pronounces-microwave/ |website=thecoast.net.nz |access-date=15 March 2025 |quote=She's known for her impeccably posh British accent}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Lawson |first=Nigella |date=24 December 2000 |title=English as it is spoke |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/24/britishidentity.comment |work=The Guardian |access-date=15 March 2025 |quote=When I was a child, my accent, for example, was Received Pronunciation; now I am given to understand it is posh. I can live with that.}}</ref>
* [[Christopher Lee]], actor<ref>{{cite web|title=Standard Upper-Class British(RP)|url=http://currentplayers.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/0/13500082/20141222155724020.pdf}}</ref>
* [[Jan Leeming]], television presenter and newsreader<ref>{{cite news |last=Sigsworth |first=Tim |date=10 April 2024 |title=Former BBC newsreader blames 'RP' accent for no longer getting work |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/10/former-bbc-newsreader-blames-rp-accent-for-lack-of-work/ |work=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=17 March 2025}}</ref>
* [[Rose Leslie]], actress<ref>{{cite news |last=Wise |first=Louis |date=6 December 2015 |title=A queen of her castle |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/a-queen-of-her-castle-g75xcn97w |work=The Sunday Times |access-date=17 March 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Garratt |first=Sheryl |date=3 September 2016 |title=Rose Leslie on finding love on Game of Thrones and making it in Hollywood |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/09/03/rose-leslie-on-finding-love-on-game-of-thrones-and-making-it-in/ |url-access=limited |work=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=17 March 2025 |quote=her shifting accent got fixed into a cut-glass RP English}}</ref>
* [[Joanna Lumley]], actress<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stadlen |first=Matthew |date=10 July 2015 |title=Joanna Lumley: I'm not posh - and I eat like a horse |work=Daily Telegraph |language=en-GB |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11731188/joanna-lumley-acting-interview-drama.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11731188/joanna-lumley-acting-interview-drama.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=9 August 2020 |issn=0307-1235}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[Theresa May]], former Prime Minister of the UK (2016–2019)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://resource.download.wjec.co.uk/vtc/2017-18/17-18_1-9/pdf/teacher-notes.pdf |title=English Language Accent and Dialect Resources |website=WJEC}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1177/00754242211046316 |title=Accent Bias and Perceptions of Professional Competence in England |date=2021 |last1=Levon |first1=Erez |last2=Sharma |first2=Devyani |last3=Watt |first3=Dominic J. L. |last4=Cardoso |first4=Amanda |last5=Ye |first5=Yang |journal=Journal of English Linguistics |volume=49 |issue=4 |pages=355–388|url=https://boris.unibe.ch/159633/ }}</ref>
* [[Helen Mirren]], actress<ref>Klaus J. Kohler (2017) "Communicative Functions and Linguistic Forms in Speech Interaction", published by CUP (page 268)</ref>
* [[Carey Mulligan]], actress<ref name="lawson"/>
* [[Laurence Olivier]], actor and director<ref name="fowler"/>
* [[Jeremy Paxman]], broadcaster and TV presenter<ref name="woods"/>
* [[Eddie Redmayne]], actor<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30937165.amp |title=Barrie Rutter on giving King Lear a Yorkshire accent |date=27 February 2015 }}</ref>
* [[Jacob Rees-Mogg]], former leader of the House of Commons (2019–2022)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40554137 |title=Labour MP Angela Rayner : 'I'm proud of my accent' |work=BBC News |quote=Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg struggled with his "posh RP [received pronunciation] accent" when he was trying to get elected in Fife. |date=10 July 2017 |access-date=9 February 2021}}</ref>
* [[Brian Sewell]], art critic<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/yourvoice/accent2.shtml |title=Voices - Your Voice |website=BBC}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://i-m-magazine.com/brian-sewell/ |title=Brian Sewell |access-date=5 December 2022 |archive-date=5 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221205075947/https://i-m-magazine.com/brian-sewell/ |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Maggie Smith]], actress<ref>{{cite web |title=Harry Pottet and the Different Accents|url=https://bora.uib.no/bora-xmlui/bitstream/handle/1956/6703/106842369.pdf?sequence=1}}</ref><ref name="Bergen Open research archive"/>
* [[Patrick Stewart]], actor<ref name="fowler"/>
* [[Edward Stourton (journalist)|Edward Stourton]], broadcaster and journalist<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/11140150/A-posh-RP-voice-can-break-down-barriers.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/11140150/A-posh-RP-voice-can-break-down-barriers.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=A 'posh' RP voice can break down barriers |first=Glenda |last=Cooper |date=4 October 2014 |work=The Daily Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[Margaret Thatcher]], former Prime Minister of the UK (1979–1990)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-22183566/why-people-change-the-way-they-speak |title=Has Beckham started talking posh? |work=BBC News}}</ref>
* [[Emma Thompson]], actress<ref>{{cite web |title=Received Pronunciation AKA Standard British |url=http://raleighlittletheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Lion-Witch-Wardrobe-dialect-guide.pdf}}</ref><ref name="economist.com"/>
* [[Phoebe Waller-Bridge]], actress, screenwriter and producer<ref name="fowler"/>
* [[Emma Watson]], actress<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nolan |first1=Dave |last2=Nolan |first2=David |title=Emma Watson: The Biography |date=24 November 2011 |publisher=Kings Road Publishing |isbn=978-1-84358-871-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kSGtDwAAQBAJ&dq=emma+watson+received+pronunciation&pg=PT34 |language=en |quote="Emma speaks her lines with crystal-clear received pronunciation..."}}</ref>
* [[Justin Welby]], Former Archbishop of Canterbury (2013–2025)<ref name="Wells 2011"/>
* [[Rowan Williams]], former Archbishop of Canterbury (2002–2012)<ref name="Wells 2011"/>