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/

@Mugglewumppp love it! Great idea 😂

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@SuziQuinto You mean you were going to go over and shove the children out of the way and steal the eggs

hands in pockets, whistling

Knew it

They don't have to eat the eggs today. They can keep them until Sunday morning.

It's still blasphemous and they'll burn in hell but worst of all I missed the hunt

If she had pulled out those teatowels would be collectables now.

I believe that the divorce of Charles and Diana was the start of the modernisation of the monarchy. It was accepted that they were normal people with untidy lives just like others. Here was the heir to the throne involved in a divorce - - not someone else in a lesser position but the heir. It was a move away from previous times where lives went on behind doors and we didn't see. Divorce isn't the shame or sin it was once seen as. Life went on.

musthorse

It was accepted that they were normal people with untidy lives just like others.

I agree.
I remember my mother telling me that, back in the day, divorced people weren't allowed in the Royal Enclosure at Ascot. Wouldn't be very "royal" if they enforced that rule now.

Imo, a lot of the "Diana effect" was the fact that she was the first to be more tactile and show her emotions, compared to everything happening "behind the curtain", as it were, so it was a novelty and made her seem special and more connected to the rest of the population.
Now, everyone's "huggy" (even if not up to Meghan's standards) and the royals want to live like common people (pace Jarvis Cocker). Trouble is, that makes them seem less royal and "other" and they become just another rich celebrity family.
Nobody can have it all ways.

When Charles and Camilla were married, but not in church, and then went to church for a blessing, I had a conversation with a churchwarden, and we observed that we knew plenty of divorced people who had remarried and we didn't spend the next 30 years railing against them. It had become so common by then to accept that divorce happens.

Just looking at the title of this thread...

There are lots of things that most people under 50 might think, but it doesn't necessarily make it right! I bet most young people wouldn't see the point of public service broadcasting, such as the BBC, for example since I suspect fewer of them watch the BBC than older people. But they might not understand the full implications of losing it.

And up it was 2089 of them only 🤷‍♀️

Share of respondents in Great Britain advising they have a positive or negative opinion of King Charles III

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1358914/king-charles-favorability-rating/

King Charles favorability rate was at 66% in Feb. It’s going up and the negative going down. Will be interesting to see how recent events impact these numbers.