Trooping the Colour was held last Saturday, to what felt like widespread British apathy. In QEII’s day, the annual “birthday parade” was a major national event, and QEII loved having all of her extended family on Buckingham Palace’s balcony, especially all of the children. King Charles is not the same – his Trooping balconies have been “slimmed down” and the only children allowed are Prince William and Kate’s kids. The crowd size has been slimmed down too – it feels like the British papers avoid publishing photos of the nonexistent rows of “royal fans” and the empty spaces all around Buckingham Palace. I’ve seen videos on social media of various “popular royals” getting their asses booed at Trooping as well. So… instead of emotional-support poll to combat any of this, the Express published data from a different kind of poll, a poll which revealed the truth: the monarchy is historically unpopular these days.
Support for the British monarchy since the late Queen Elizabeth’s death has declined by a quarter, according to a new poll, in what could be seen as a major blow for King Charles. The late Queen died on September 8, 2022, leaving a nation in mourning after an incredible 70 years on the throne. King Charles, who was the longest-serving Prince of Wales in history, succeeded to the throne upon her passing. However, according to a new survey from Slingo, support for the monarchy has declined during the last three years, with 25.42% of participants expressing reduced support for the Royal Family today.
In contrast, 1 in 5 of those (21%) asked said they were more in favour of the Firm since the late Queen’s passing.
The poll was conducted in March 2025 by Censuswide on behalf of Slingo and included 1,000 people over the age of 16.
Elsewhere, the Princess of Wales emerged as the most popular member of the Royal Family with 17% favourability, with her husband, Prince William, coming second with 15%. King Charles ranked third with 13%, while Princess Anne and Prince Harry completed the top 5 with 11% and 9% favourability, respectively.
Meghan Markle ranked sixth with 3%, just above Duchess Sophie and Prince Edward, who scored 3% and 2% respectively.
Queen Camilla emerged as the list favourite royal, with 2% favourability. Prince Andrew was not listed in the poll.
I don’t understand the question and methodology for “support the Royal Family” question – were pollsters asking “do you support the Windsors, yes or no?” Or was it like a one to five rating? The funniest f–king part is the popularity scores for individual royals – was it either/or, you can only support one royal? Or could you choose to support as many royals as possible? Either way, 17% for Kate is hysterical, as is 15% for William. They even put Meghan in this group (again, she has not lived there since January 2020) and SHE was still more popular than Camilla. Come on, that’s funny.
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- London, UK, 14 June 2025. Protestors during the King’s Birthday Parade, Trooping The Colour, Buckingham Palace, London, UK.,Image: 1010943629, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Lee Floyd/Avalon
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- Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester and Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester, Sophie Duchess of Edinburgh, Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Camilla, King Charles III, Prince Louis, Prince William, Prince George, Catherine Princess of Wales, Princess Charlotte, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, Princess Anne and Timothy Laurence seen on the Palace balcony for a RAF fly-by during Trooping the colour on Saturday 14 June 2025 at Buckingham Palace, London. Number 7 Company Coldstream Guards Troop their Colour in the presence of His Majesty The King. Over 1350 soldiers of the Household Division and King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery took part, including over 300 musicians from the Massed Bands.. Picture,Image: 1010947839, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: World Rights – Julie Edwards/Avalon.Red, Model Release: no, Credit line: Julie Edwards/Avalon
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- Queen Camilla, King Charles III, Prince Louis, Prince William, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Catherine Princess of Wales seen on the Palace balcony for a RAF fly-by during Trooping the colour on Saturday 14 June 2025 at Buckingham Palace, London. Number 7 Company Coldstream Guards Troop their Colour in the presence of His Majesty The King. Over 1350 soldiers of the Household Division and King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery took part, including over 300 musicians from the Massed Bands.. Picture,Image: 1010948127, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: World Rights – Julie Edwards/Avalon.Red, Model Release: no, Credit line: Julie Edwards/Avalon
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- Ascot, UNITED KINGDOM – Members Of The Royal Family attend day two of Royal Ascot at Ascot Racecourse in Ascot, England. Pictured: King Charles III, Queen Camilla BACKGRID USA 18 JUNE 2025 BYLINE MUST READ: Zak Hussein / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Royals during day one of Royal Ascot at Ascot Racecourse Featuring: Queen Camilla.King Charles III Where: Ascot, United Kingdom When: 17 Jun 2025 Credit: Cover Images
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- Royals during day one of Royal Ascot at Ascot Racecourse Featuring: King Charles III.Queen Camilla Where: Ascot, United Kingdom When: 17 Jun 2025 Credit: Cover Images
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- Royals during day one of Royal Ascot at Ascot Racecourse Featuring: King Charles III.Queen Camilla Where: Ascot, United Kingdom When: 17 Jun 2025 Credit: Cover Images
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- Members of the royal family on Day Three of Royal Ascot Meeting 2025 Featuring: King Charles and Queen Camilla Where: Ascot, United Kingdom When: 19 Jun 2025 Credit: Cover Images
Did someone in the media trip and fall into some truth?
How interesting.
The UK really has much better uses for the money they pay these billionaires to do absolutely nothing of any value for the people who live there.
Why didn’t they put the Pedo in the poll? I bet he’d have scored higher than the Rottweiler.
A 25% drop is enormous. If Lazy at 17% is the most popular, the Windsors are doomed. That means 83% do not find her favourable at all.
I’m sure a YouGov poll will be published shortly to give them the necessary emotional support.
Yes, I love the way they present the statistics – much nicer than saying Camilla is 98% unfavorable. And why bother with that 2%? Might as well say everybody hates her. So much for that rehabilitation plan.
The BM has been trying to gaslight the public into thinking that Camilla is popular. Good to know that no one likes her. Charles really destroyed his immediate family (and, I would argue) the BRF’s image in order to make Queen Camilla happen. Not only did it not happen, he also tanked the institution in the process because if you allow some members of the RF to be trashed to make yourself and your awful wife look better, then you are undermining the entire institution in the longterm.
If the most popular royal only has 17 percent approval, things are dire indeed.
The poll results are weirdly worded, like they’re trying to hide something – which maybe they are. If they asked the respondents to list their favorite royal and you could only name one and kate got 17%, that doesn’t seem too bad for me bc there are so many other royals to split the responses. but its not good either considering how she’s trying to push herself as the most popular royal of all. and its certainly not that big a margin over Harry or Meghan.
but I’m just not sure what “17% favourability” means. If they asked the poll respondents, do you have a favorable or unfavorable view of Kate and only 17% said favorable……thats pretty bad.
The poll makes me wonder what questions were asked in the YouGov emotional support poll as well. I think the attendance for Trooping is the real barometer of how the public feels about the Royal Family. I think for the most the public is apathetic and the press will continue to prop the Royal Family up until they become useless.
They’re already useless. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
To the public, yes; to the press barons, no. Not yet.
The British people will get there. They’re just not there yet. But the day is coming when it will hit them that this family of grifters and pedos is pulling a massive con job on the taxpayers: You support us in unbelievable luxury while we take in even more wealth in numerous side hustles, and we will appear in public to let you cheer us from time to time and call that work. Even cynical anti-monarchist me can’t believe those favorables which are barely favorable. 🫣
They need some serious outreach and work. But they won’t do it they’re aging or lazy and any time anyone shows any signs of actually wanting to do the job the top handicaps or smears them so they don’t look bad by comparison. So instead they just look bad all by themselves.
So much depends on the wording of the poll. It’s one thing to say you have a “favourable” opinion of an individual royal (although I would guess that even most Brits can only name a few) and another to say that you are in favour of them continuing to siphon money from the government.
Also, the fact that Meghan (who hasn’t lived in the country for 5 years and was only a working royal for 2 years) is ranked higher than Sophie, who has been trying for decades to make fetch happen…lol. Justice. Sophie who?
I had to laugh at that, too. Seems like “Sophie, the secret weapon” is still a big secret.
Wasn’t Meghan’s time as a working royal closer to 18 months? I know they did those last few engagements in March but I consider January their end.
They were married in the middle of May 2018 and left in January 2020 – so 20 months?
January 2020 was the announcement. I thought they officially left March 2020, after doing their final duties as royals. They even mentioned in the docuseries that they were running up against the world shutting down due to the pandemic as they were leaving the UK.
@Korra – you’re right, their office was officially closed at the end of March and their final public appearance was Commonwealth Day earlier in the month.
LOL! You just know that in reading this Sophie, the butt kisser, is simply seething!
I would be interested in another poll two years after King William inherits the throne when no amount of PR can disguise lack of visibility and effort on both UK and foreign stage. No royal tours and just say 8 big engagements at home annually whilst we pay millions for his changing of the hat ceremony.Is invisibility going to be Will’s super power as King?
I burst out laughing at the header photo of Camilla. Her true nature shines through. Excellent picture choice.
So classy, as always! Can you image QEII doing anything remotely like that in public view? Queen Camilla indeed!
This feels like the press sending a huge SoS flare trying to get the Windsors attention.
I’m curious to know how the questions were worded.
There is no way they can ever recreate the QEII popularity. No matter what Queen Elizabeth or Prince Philip did wrong, the people at the time remembered they both served during war time. Both were WWII veterans. That Queen Elizabeth had uncles (her mother’s side) who died in the war. That Buckingham Palace was bombed. That the country felt like their Royal Family suffered WITH them. That is a bond the following generations can never recreate.
Yup! They’re doomed and I can’t wait. Hubris is a hell of a drug!
Karma is a b**ch.
I feel like it’s poorly worded, but I suspect that favourability has to do with the difference between positive and negative answers. So if asked “do you approve of Kate?” and 60% said yes and 40% said no, that would be a favourability of 20%. Not 20% of the people support, but 20% of the people support her above the amount that do not
As others have said, I think this is a poorly written article that might be trying to report results from a very poorly written questionnaire. Still, I’m cracking up at the thought that Meghan’s sold out fruit spread is apparently a LOT more popular with the public than any of the current working royals. Lol
I tried to dig out this poll to look at the questions. Slingo is a games website? There’s a company called Slido that does custom polling, so maybe that’s it, who knows. The Express also does its own in-house polling via text boxes that ask readers to click on answer buttons. Although if this is one of the Express’s text box polls, where their conservative, older readers, who are already reading a royals article, are asked to choose an answer to a question, then a truly representative poll would be even more dire (and no, I’d never trust The Express to weight results honestly to reflect a broader population). The Express article says to tune in tomorrow for a podcast/webinar/something about releasing the poll results, so maybe somebody with time for this (not me) will know more then.
When no one else shows up, or for those elderly royals who show up and get no press, what else do they think will happen?
They desperately need to make William and Kate step up, and also bring in the other younger (40s now 🤣) people.
It’s wild how they are running this show.
What really chaps my hide is seeing a woman as horrible as Camilla get to wear hats that fabulous. The unfairness is enough to make me question whether there’s a God.
That hat does look spectacular, doesn’t it? It looks like it took hundred of hours to construct too, too bad it’s greatness deserve a better wearer. Camilla doesn’t deserve that piece of art!
“Queen Camilla emerged as the list favourite royal, with 2% favourability.“
— Do you mean, “the LEAST favorite royal“?
They are ridiculous people in a ridiculous institution.
They barely are finding this out Now. No Duh… 🙄