The prefix is customarily abbreviated to "The" in many situations, but never for Privy Counsellors. The following persons are entitled to the style in a personal capacity:

The following persons are entitled to the style "[[ex officio]]". The style is added to the name of the office, not the name of the person:


All other Lord Mayors are "[[Worship (style)|The Right Worshipful]]"; other Lord Provosts do not use an honorific. By the 1920s, a number of city mayors, including that of [[Leeds]], were unofficially using the prefix "The Right Honourable" and the matter was consequently raised in [[Parliament]]. Interestingly, the Lord Mayor of [[Bristol]] at present still uses the prefix "Right Honourable", without official sanction. The [[List of chairmen of the London County Council|Chairman of the London County Council]] (LCC) was granted the style in 1935 as part of the celebrations of the [[silver jubilee]] of King [[George V]]. The Chairman of the [[Greater London Council]], the body that replaced the LCC in 1965, was similarly granted the prefix, but was abolished in 1986.

Privy Counsellors are appointed for life by the Monarch, on the advice of the Prime Minister. All members of the British Cabinet (technically a committee of the Privy Council) are appointed to the Privy Council, as are certain other senior ministers in the government and leaders of the major political parties. The Privy Council thus includes all current and former members of the [[Cabinet of the United Kingdom]], excepting those who have resigned from the Privy Council. The First Ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are also so appointed.

In order to differentiate [[peerage|peer]]s who are Privy Counsellors from those who are not, the [[Post-nominal letters|suffix]] "PC" should be added after the name (according to [[Debrett's Peerage]] (2015)). This is not however considered correct by "[[Who's Who (UK)|Who's Who]]" (2002). 

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