The Essex accent has long attracted ridicule and disapproval. But primary school teachers say it also has a damaging effect on children’s spelling and grammar. So they have introduced elocution ...

Repeating ‘The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain’ helped transform Eliza Doolittle from a Cockney flower girl into a lady. These days, rising numbers of people are taking elocution lessons for a ...

A primary school in Essex has become one of the first in the country to offer its pupils elocution lessons to help them lose their accents. 27 January 2012 • 9:45am Cherry Tree Primary School, in ...

Traditional elocution lessons are making a comeback as jobseekers attempt to “soften” their regional accents and boost public speaking skills to get ahead in the workplace, according to research. The ...

The Queen's personal adviser has revealed how she once received elocution lessons from the monarch - but says they didn't last long. Angela Kelly, who has worked closely with the Queen for the past 25 ...

Bonnie Tyler has said she signed up for elocution lessons earlier in her career because she was so self-conscious about her strong Welsh accent. The Total Eclipse Of The Heart singer, 72, who was born ...

David and Victoria Beckham have started taking elocution lessons in a bid to boost their US career prospects, a report claims. According to the Daily Star, ex-Spice Girl Victoria has decided that she ...

Elocution lessons are on the rise as graduates seek to improve their job prospects. According to one provider, demand for classes has more than doubled since 2010. Helen Hendrickson, an elocutionist ...

Though the royal family are not the most private people, they do still demand quite a bit of discretion from their employees. This goes doubly so for the people who dress the Queen Back in 2018, the ...

The Princess of Wales has taken elocution lessons and now sounds more posh than her husband, a new book claims. In Endgame, the royal commentator and journalist Omid Scobie details Kate’s journey from ...

Some royal fans think Meghan's accent is "changing" THE eagerly-awaited royal documentary, Queen of the World, aired this week and fans across the country took to social media to voice their opinions ...