My impression was always that the upper class in the Star Wars universe did have British-like accents, and it was commentary on classism/racism that all the high ranking imperial officers were old white men and had British-like accents. Lucas had purposely cast either old school English actors or actors with a background in English theatre to play the Imperial officers. Meanwhile, the rebels were made up of an eclectic group of all races, genders, species, etc....
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