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Thread #170984   Message #4136835
Posted By: Allan Conn
16-Feb-22 - 02:44 AM
Thread Name: BS: Congratulations to HM The Queen!
Subject: RE: BS: Congratulations to HM The Queen!
Re DaveRo's post and support for the monarchy at just 60% that is true - but a more important factor is what is the support for an alternative once the Don't Knows and Don't Cares are taken out of the equation. For instance a recent Yougov poll put support for the monarchy at 63% - but support for a republic was much lower at 25%. Likewise Survation recently had support for the monarchy lower at 57% whereas a republic was 29%. So the support for the monarchy is not universal but support for the alternative is still way behind. When broken down in parts then even in Scotland where support for the monarchy is only around 50% that support is still way ahead of Republicanism.

I do think though that at least a portion of support for the monarchy will be a fairly soft support. More for the person than the institution so support could be fickle - and approval for the present Queen is way ahead of approval to the heir to the throne. This link shows there is an overall positive rating for the Queen of 80% with 51% being very positive. Charles has only a 54% overall positive rating with only 13% very positive. Among the adults only William and Kate come anywhere near the Queen in truth! Harry has only 34% overall positive with only 11% being very positive. Then there is the likes of Andrew with 6% positive about him and only 1% very positive. Again when broken down support in Scotland is lower for all the royals apart from Harry and Meghan - as I suppose maybe they are not so hated because the institution has not got the same support so criticisms of it are not so important.

One does feel that maybe after an initial bout of sympathy there could be a major challenge for the royals to retain support when Charles and the even less popular Camilla take the throne. With the Queen there is the "aye been" element. For the vast bulk of us she has always been the monarch since we were born so it is kind of accepted without much questioning by many.

https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/mk1br7xert/Internal_RoyalFamily_211124_W.pdf