YouGov Poll August 2024

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YouGov Poll August 2024.

It's interesting that the King has very few Don't Knows. I wonder if that is a reflection of how much he is out and about after the last few years of the late Queen's reign where health and Covid restricted her movements? He may not be completely approved of but people have opinions about him. I always think indifference is the worst from a PR stand point.

I'm not a poll expert, at all, but I am surprised all the Republic shouting and protesting front and centre at events hasn't moved the dial more. They don't seem to be able to advance their cause much and I wonder if they expected more support after the late Queen died.

I'm surprised Andrew got any purple at all!

Me too!

Perhaps Sarah sat up all night ticking boxes with different aliases

Nah, perverts walk amongst us. So they will like him.

Yes, I think this is interesting. He seems to be a very Marmite figure with very few people being neutral (Camilla has far more neutral views) and agree that from a PR point of view that can be useful. I wondered if the negatives were a group of Diana die hards who can't let go.

Overall the working royals are viewed positively. I'm interested in the inclusion of Beatrice and Eugenie as I don't think they are usually included - I may be wrong there.

Snort! Honestly nothing would surprise me! How can anyone be neutral or positive about him. Words fail me.

Maybe they are included because they do occasionally get involved in royal stuff, at the Coronation they were visiting tea parties and they supported William at a garden party this year. If you are going to include Harry and Megan and Andrew, who all do nothing, you really have to include them.

It would be interesting to see the Tindalls included, no idea how they would poll.

I wonder how numerous the Diana diehards are. It has been so long you would have thought most people would grasp the complexity of the whole drama by now. Maybe The Crown fiction hasn't helped?

I think they have included the core descendant family of QEII who are adults holding a royal title and their titled spouses. So Zara, Peter and Louise are excluded, but the York daughters are included.

Edited because I have covid and words aren't coming easy!

Get well soon

Thank you, @MrsLeonFarrell x

Charles has never been very popular. He was seen as a bit of a crank and very out of touch, he also lacks charisma. His affair didn't help and Diana was very popular. Part of the problem when they first married was her over shadowing him; he didn't like it at all.

That was 43 years ago. I doubt whether it bothers many people currently, apart from the die hard followers of Diana.

You could make the same argument about anyone really. Who will remember Andrew's indiscretions in 40 odd years?

History will never let us forget.

40 years ago, Andrew would have been the dashing Falklands hero topping the list.

Charles is no longer seen as a crank. He was a visionary as far as environmental stewardship is concerned and is still at the head of innovation in that field. Founding The Princes Trust and the Dutchy brand are also a measure of the man's interest in societal responsibility and industriousness. It's a shame people can't look beyond his first marriage and his first wife, who was really not the angel she liked to portray.

A visionary - someone's drunk the kool aid.

Captain, my captain!

I don't drink Kool Aid. I do read from more than one source, though. You should put the Andrew Morton down and try it.

Tony Juniper, the chair of Natural England and former executive director of Friends of the Earth, who has co-authored two books with Charles, said: “There is no doubt that our monarch, our head of state, is a very committed and very effective environmentalist.”

Charles has espoused environmental causes for more than half a century. He made his first speech on green issues at the age of 21, warning of the threats from plastic waste and chemicals dumped into rivers and seas, and air pollution from industry, vehicles and planes.

Juniper said: “He had to put up with some really quite unpleasant ridicule during the early years of raising these questions. But he knew he was in a bigger battle than just dealing with a few sceptics, that this was an existential threat.

“And so he stuck with it. He was a real pioneer for many years when mainstream figures wouldn’t acknowledge the scale of the threat, and had to put up with a lot of pushback from different people. And in the end, of course, he was ahead of the consensus.”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/27/king-charles-royal-family-bentleys-green-sustainability-environment#:~:text=Charles%20has%20espoused%20environmental%20causes,views%20were%20seen%20as%20eccentric.

It's quite incredible how easily opinion is swayed by the media. Six years ago Harry was more popular than the Queen, Mehan was 6th and Camilla 10th.

Still a majority in the country think the UK would either be better off or it wouldn't make a difference if we binned them all.

(Edited because I forgot what year it is)

Hatfullofwillow

It's quite incredible how easily opinion is swayed by the media. Six years ago Harry was more popular than the Queen, Mehan was 6th and Camilla 10th.

A lot has happened in those six years - I don't think the media made those things happen.
If anything, that just shows how much goodwill Harry and Meghan have lost.

It's quite incredible how easily opinion is swayed by the media.

I agree. Camilla was despised for years but there was a long campaign to make her acceptable which seems to have worked. Harry was a cheeky chappy while he had a good PR team and the media were happy. William and wife sometimes use public planes to make them more relatable. It's a big PR exercise so we keep paying for them and people swallow it all and doff their caps

Opinion isn't swayed by the media - people can look and judge for themselves. They can see how Camilla behaves, how she supports causes and is a capable consort. She's kind of redeemed herself. I think if she wrote a tell all book, complained all the time or told lies about the others for money then she'd probably plummet.

The poll made by the nephew of Camilla, something like that? The population hás other opnions...

Are you referring to Ben Elliot, the non exec director of you.gov from 2010 - 2019? How is he influencing polling stats 5 years after he left nothiwithstanding the fact that he would have had no operational input I must be non- exec'ing all wrong!

Here's Ipsos Mori's poll from May - I wait to be enlightened as to how Camilla's extended family manipulated this one!
https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/public-perceptions-of-royal-family-improve-prince-and-princess-of-wales-remain-most-popular-royals