Royal family favourability trackers, October 2025

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The latest YouGov figures on the Royal Family are in:

• Andrew is spectacularly unpopular—91% negative (Honestly, I’d love to chat with the 4% who still like him 🤣)
• William and Catherine remain the crown jewels of public opinion, with favourability ratings of 76% and 73% respectively.
• Charles’ numbers have edged up slightly, from 59% in August to 62%, despite the ongoing Andrew mess.
• Camilla is still a divisive figure with 45% favourable, 41% unfavourable.
• Harry and Meghan continue to struggle, with favourability at just 30% and 21%.
• Overall support for the monarchy has slipped slightly, from 64% to 62% but is still holding up surprisingly well considering recent events
• A quarter of the population would rather have an elected head of state.

yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/53286-royal-family-favourability-trackers-october-2025

He's an arsehole though.

Its so sad. I am NOT a Diana fan at all and I do not see her as a blameless victim. But it seems there were very few people who truly cared about her enough to put her needs first, and of those people fewer still had the clout to do anything to help. Her boys love her, but were too young to protect her. The Dr cared, but was too terrified of the media and and had too little power to help. She was a pawn in some very powerful people (men's) games to make money. She would have been surrounded by yes men or women and didn't have the inner strength to take care of herself.

To be fair, just as Diana had her own childhood struggles, so did he. He was sexually abused whilst at boarding school and it clearly had a profound impact on him.

Oh yes, that's true. And it was brave of him to discuss it.

But he's still an arsehole to all his wives.

I'm pretty sure it was Camilla. She had been on the scene since before the wedding. Tiggy L-B wasn't on the scene the whole time. There's no way of knowing, anyway, as the person who said it is deceased.

You can be pretty sure but unfortunately there is actual evidence and written proof that it was her🤷‍♀️

That’s fair enough.

Again, as with Diana, just because someone has suffered it doesn’t excuse their own bad behaviour. Hopefully he has reflected on his actions and made a conscious effort to do better and atone now that he’s older.

With regard to William and Catherine’s popularity, I think Harry and Meghan actually did them a favour by trashing them so publicly. I was indifferent before the Oprah/Spare stuff but that made me feel aggrieved on their behalf. It’s possible to not be enthusiastic about the institution whilst feeling compassion for individual members.

IMHO, the RF benefit from relative grading.

The UK public are facing a government which lurches from one scandal to the next. So far, Mandelson (most important ambassadorial post with national security and economic ramifications) gone due to Epstein scandal, Raynor gone in housing scandal, Reeves' housing license scandal buried by Andrew but racing towards a budget catastrophe and her disastrous job performance is hammering an already weak economy, Lammy prisoner release debacle, Starmer's wardrobe from Lord Ali, etc.

When people compare KC3's constitutional monarchy versus Starmer's current government and think of the Brexit debacle, it is understandable that they are reluctant to undergo the costly, time-consuming and contentious process of changing the political landscape.

I mean, that might be a factor for some, but I’d say Harry and Meghan’s behaviour is really the main reason their own popularity dropped so sharply, rather than giving any kind of boost to William and Catherine, who have consistently been popular.

Like I’ve mentioned before, William and Catherine have always had strong public support. Polls tracking individual favourability since 2011 show they’ve consistently been well liked. Their biggest dip came around January 2023, when William fell to 70% and Catherine to 68% (around the time Spare was released). Even then, most people still viewed them positively, and their ratings quickly bounced back. It just shows how steady their popularity has been over the years.

By contrast, Harry and Meghan saw an initial drop in favourability when they stepped back from royal duties in 2020, with a small recovery after. Meghan’s popularity then took a real hit after the Oprah interview in March 2021, falling from 39% in March to 29% in April. Harry’s own ratings plummeted sharply around the release of Spare in January 2023, going from 33% in December 2022 to 24%.

I should have added that all the above is based on the data provided by Yougov!

You're aware that Bashir faked a lot of the "evidence" he gave to Diana, in order to convince her to do the interview?

It wasn't Tiggy. It was Camilla.

You are aware that bashir faked “ evidence “ of TLB having an affair and being pregnant to show Diana? . So I’m not sure how you think it proves that she was talking about Camilla instead 🤷‍♀️ and yes there are emails and written documents that prove this .
im sorry if this information upsets you but facts are facts.

Are you saying Diana was lying?

Around 1986, again according to the biography written by Jonathan Dimbleby about your husband, he says that your husband renewed his relationship with Mrs Camilla Parker-Bowles. Were you aware of that?
a:Â Yes I was, but I wasn't in a position to do anything about it.
q:Â What evidence did you have that their relationship was continuing even though you were married?
a:Â Oh, a woman's instinct is a very good one.
q:Â Is that all?
a:Â Well, I had, obviously I had knowledge of it.
q:Â From staff?
a:Â Well, from people who minded and cared about our marriage, yes.
q:Â What effect did that have on you?
a:Â Pretty devastating. Rampant bulimia, if you can have rampant bulimia, and just a feeling of being no good at anything and being useless and hopeless and failed in every direction.
q:Â And with a husband who was having a relationship with somebody else?
a:Â With a husband who loved someone else, yes.
q:Â You really thought that?
a:Â Uh,uh. I didn't think that, I knew it.
q:Â How did you know it?
a:Â By the change of behavioural pattern in my husband; for all sorts of reasons that a woman's instinct produces; you just know.
It was already difficult, but it became increasingly difficult.
q:Â In the practical sense, how did it become difficult?
a:Â Well, people were - when I say people I mean friends, on my husband's side - were indicating that I was again unstable, sick, and should be put in a home of some sort in order to get better. I was almost an embarrassment.
q:Â Do you think he really thought that?
a:Â Well, there's no better way to dismantle a personality than to isolate it.
q:Â So you were isolated?
a:Â Uh,uh, very much so.
q:Â Do you think Mrs Parker-Bowles was a factor in the breakdown of your marriage?
a:Â Well, there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/royals/interviews/bbc.html

And ? , may I ask why the link is pbs? , where is a link to the original broadcast without edits?

You left this out , we now know that Diana did help Andrew Morton directly with his book , so this is was not actually truthful.

I’m disappointed in William.

Despite his much touted concern for climate change, he still has access to a number of fully staffed homes, uses helicopters like taxis, holidays on gas guzzling yachts and worst of all is planning to build a massive housing estate outside Kent on prime farmland. The pleasure he takes in shooting wild birds is off too.

He has moved again and has fenced off over 100 acres in Windsor Great Park which will impede the movement of wildlife used to unfettered access. This has also resulted in the closure of various local facilities including a children’s environmental centre I believe.

I think he means well but like most of the Windsor men, isn’t that bright and like his father, won’t listen to wiser heads.

Of course it was Camilla. Diana knew about her before the wedding.

You’re entitled to feel that way, sure. But the thing is, despite all those concerns, he’s still ridiculously popular.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fiction/dianarama-andy-webb-review-panorama/

if people are interested then a new book from Andy Webb who spent two decades fighting with the bbc to get them to release files will be an eye opener.

Dianarama is in my TBR pile! I’m hoping to read it over the Christmas period 🥰

The wording is wrong, surely? It should be "the Duchess of Edinburgh". Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, is how she would be referred to if divorced, I thought? Same as the Princess of Wales became Diana, Princess of Wales after her divorce, and similar for Fergie.
Which is just one of the reasons people laugh at Meghan, because she styles herself incorrectly.

It’s certainly revealing from the small sample given by the telegraph!
and to reassure the Diana fans , he is one as well and is very sympathetic to her .

You can't find it. The BBC have taken it out of circulation. You don't seem to know much about all this, do you?

Wow, that’s really telling, isn’t it?