REUTERS: Only a minority of Britons under 50 support the monarchy

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The chart below, along with the unprecedented level of social media (and even royalty!) mocking around Katespiracy and Katephotogate, could send a chill down the RF's spine.

Whilst 70% of those aged 65+ and 50% of the 50-64 (the demographic on MN?) support the monarchy, this drops to 30% among the 25-49 and ONLY 19% among the 18-24s - YouGov Jan 24 data.

Some will say "that's nowt new!" But with TikTok, X and other SM having unprecedented reach (far more than mainstream media) and cultivating literally thousands of GenZ and Millennial mini-influencers, and with the RF in its current state of turmoil (some of it illness-related, some not, incl. Prince William being largely MIA, the RF's reluctance to deal with Prince Andrew and his grifting ex-wife, Rose Hanbury and extra child (!!) rumours, the casting-out and continued vilification of M&H, the embarrassment that is uncle Gary, etc etc), are comparisons to a decade ago going to be helpful in predicting what this means for the RF in the future? I doubt it.

We all know the billionaire RF continue to sustain their taxpayer and IHT exemption-funded luxury lives thanks to the public's goodwill, hence they employ loads of professional PR people to do their comms. But if there's anything recent events have shown, KP in particular suck at it, with the KP comms team the subject of derision and ridicule around the globe.

It's easy to say "they've weathered worse", but the past isn't a guarantor of the future. I'm sure Boris Johnson also thought he could lie to the public forever... until one day, the tide turned. Not saying this is an identical situation, but the recent lies emanating from KP (I'm sorry, issuing a fake 'proof of life' photo is equivalent to telling a lie) are part of a culture of secrecy and public manipulation.

And consider this: last August, the above numbers were:
80% of those aged 65+ and 67% of the 50-64s support the monarchy, versus 56% among the 25-49s and 37% among the 18-24s. So a drop of 26pp (percentage points) for the 25-49s, and 18pp for the 18-24s.

And who's to say what the numbers will be post-Katephotogate?

https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/uk-monarchy-suffers-an-impairment-its-goodwill-2024-03-13/

Some people speak about their own feelings and attribute them to everyone else. At work I was very irritated by the 'well, we all think so and so ' brigade. Oh, no, you don't. You haven't asked me how I feel.

I have to correct myself. I have conflated 2 separate events. Camilla was in Shrewsbury on Wednesday where she was met with large crowds and the little girls with the posters for Catherine. She was then in Worcester yesterday for the Maundy service, once again met with a large supportive crowd and a small group of republicans.

She was then in Worcester yesterday for the Maundy service, once again met with a large supportive crowd and a small group of republicans.

I live in Worcester and there was not a large crowd at all. I was surprised to see a lot of resentment towards her because of Diana. Still, after all these years. In our local paper reports there were loads of people complaining that it should have been Diana.

I was surprised - I thought people had forgiven her. I like her actually even though I'm not a royalist.

It should have been Diana?!
Oh ffs. How many years ago now?
I think it's weird that anyone would still have that Diana obsession all these years on, but there you go.

I know, I really thought that was in the past now.

Link?

I think anyone who hasn’t realised that Diana is dead, that she was divorced long before she died and still manage to think that ‘it should have been her’ need a wee reality check.

How sad to not be able to move on and live in the real world.

It's ludicrous. Diana has been dead for 27 years. She and Charles separated 32 years ago. Camilla and Charles have been married for almost 20 years.
It's pathetic that some folks can't move on.

Bit of a cross post there, @ArcaneWireless !
Yes, it's ridiculous. Imagine going out to protest on that basis.

This sort of thing.

I can't see much there, plus it looks like social media.
Have you a link to events at Worcester Cathedral?

Every effort has certainly been made to erase her memory from the history books.

I saw some atrocious grammar. 🤣

Yes it's comments on our local newspapers social media. Why would I have pictures of outside the cathedral? You can see those in our local newspaper as well if you look it up. I imagine the people who haven't got over Diana wouldn't have gone. However, you have to live here to understand the mentality.

People complaining it should have been Diana 😳

I wasn’t aware Worcester had got stuck in the 1990’s. Have the good people suffered a ‘blip’.

No one has forgotten Diana. It just feels weird to wish she was still married to Charles and living in a family that was not a happy experience for her.

Would be creepy enough if the people actually knew her.

Yes, probably!

What, like both of her sons doing an awards event in her name and memory the other week?

No. There are many books available about Diana. Plus series like The Crown seem to like to keep it all going. She'll never be "erased", quite rightly, but some people do need to move on from any obsessive feelings about her life and death.

And yet William has just hosted the awards in her memory.

She is dead.

She was loved. Even by strangers - although because of an early death she was elevated to a kind of sainthood.

It is only healthy that the memory of her should slowly fade - and remembered only by those who actually knew her well enough to love her.

Anything else this far on - from actual strangers - is just pure creepy.

Yes. No "erasure" at all!

https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1882512/queen-camilla-royal-maundy-service-worcester
I've found this from the Express. A small group from Republic with "not my Queen", but I can't find a reference to Diana. Am still looking.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxez1rgndj5o
BBC report.