Royal family favourability trackers, October 2025

[EmpressSisi]

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

When was Tiggy supposed to be involved with Charles? (She was 5 years younger than Diana btw)

That question was meant for Jeff

I think had she not died, she’d be in top favour with the public by now. Charles would still have married Camilla but Diana would have gone on to play a really significant role in the family. A role a bit like Sarah Ferguson had but much nicer - close and involved with the family, charitable work, public engagement. She’d certainly have been a top grandma and a powerful guiding mother-in-law. And I strongly believe were she still alive now, Harry and William would not have fallen out - I think a key factor in that was Diana’s death, their struggles with grief, with William having a purpose in life to focus on but Harry drifting as the jealous spare.

How many times does this incorrect “factoid” get trotted out on here when it’s patently untrue?

Charles Spencer successfully sued the Daily Mail for spreading this rumour!

He withdrew the offer of one cottage because of the potential for press intrusion there but offered her a much larger property on his estate.

https://pressgazette.co.uk/medialaw/earl-spencer-wins-libel-damages-from-daily-mail-publisher-over-claim-he-was-unbrotherly-towards-princess-diana-after-her-marriage-collapsed/

Suffice to say that it suits a certain narrative to falsely represent them as being at odds with one another.

Popularity ..its so childish imo who cares who is more popular? What does that even do for us knowing Camilla is less popular than someone else...nothing.

It's the poll itself not what its about that I can't take seriously based on how many are polled. At least have a decent polling size.

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Funny how you “don’t care” about popularity, yet here you are arguing about it. Like it or not, the data shows they’re popular. I’m sorry the stats aren’t bending to fit your narrative 🤣

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As I said why is this even a thing in this day and age, what purpose does it serve to have know which rf members are more popular than others..?

They do it with politicians too you know? Just a little hint?

Well the stats are certainly bent!

How did Prince Edward earn his place on it for example? Were the people polled generally knowledgeable about his engagements and work load?

If you stopped members of the public on an average British high street, would they be aware of what he does?

Would their answer have been the same if they were asked how he justifies his peppercorn rent enabling him and his family to live in a £30 million pound mansion?

It’s all in the question if you ask me!

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You go ahead and crack on with your own poll, I’m sure it’ll be completely fair and unbiased. In the meantime, I’ll happily stick with YouGov and keep telling everyone that William and Catherine have consistently been considered popular for the past 13 years… until your “findings” are reviewed and published by a globally renowned market research and data analytics firm 🤣

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Tbh, given what we know now following the publication of Lownie’s book, and how so much is covered up. I think it would be
more pertinent to ask; which members of the royal family have the best PR teams and the most productive relationships with tame journalists?

I find it hilarious how people are more than happy to point out when the monarchy isn’t as popular as it used to be… but the moment you mention William and Catherine’s popularity, suddenly it’s: “the sample’s too small,” “they didn’t ask the right questions,” “who even did they ask?”

So transparent. They’re twisting themselves into knots 🤣 🥨

Ah, so William and Catherine are popular… but only because of a massive government/media cover‑up, which Lownie has knows about but won’t expose, even though he’s perfectly capable of spilling all the tea? Gotcha 😉

I’m not denying their popularity. They seem to do their job very well.

I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that the future of the monarchy depends on them continuing to get it right.

And I think that’s a lot of pressure on one couple.

The monarchy is really quite fragile when you look at it that way.

It wouldn’t take much to topple it; proven financial irregularities relating to the Duchies, an affair, take your pick.

Alongside that we have the burgeoning “lack of credibility” factor in the 21st century of a future monarch campaigning about homelessness and the environment and visiting charities that work to prevent social exclusion, while they themselves will have seventeen or so vast estates, travel extensively by aeroplane and whose own environmental footprint is hardly small, and is part of a closed, establishment of the wealthy elite.

After a while, it simply won’t wash.

I mean, they’ve already taken a pounding from Harry and Meghan. Catherine’s been accused of being the “royal racist” and somehow still comes out unscathed. William got tangled up in the Duchy controversy and those alleged incidents with Harry, yet his popularity has barely so much as twitched. Like I said, it would take a serious scandal to topple them, like affair or abuse level, the kind that blows up headlines. A decade of royal drama later, they’re still riding high. Honestly, Catherine would literally have to go nuclear on William for his ratings to drop… and she’s clearly not that kind of person.

Im well aware and think thats also nonsense but this is about the rf so 🤷

@Sourdillpicklesandmore

If you look at the data, you can absolutely see that people are not as familiar with Edward as everyone else apart from Sophie, Beatrice & Eugenie: look at the ‘don’t know’s.

You started a thread about the poll not specifically about how w&k are popular from this poll. So im here commenting about the poll itself, not twisting myself i to knots because of who is at the top 🙄

I think you have deliberately misunderstood my post.

I am saying, in general, that “popularity” to a large extent is a chimera isn’t it?

To a large degree, it depends on how much of themselves the RF present to the public and how skilfully that is done? And their attempts to control the narrative?

Eg Catherine and William’s video of a supposed carefree day of them and their children playing among wooded dunes? It was made to look like casual snippets from family videos with George looming in to the camera saying “is this filming?” when in fact it was shot by a man (and a film crew) who created ad campaigns for Uber Eats and who made Tesco’s Food Love Stories commercials.

Don’t get me wrong. William and Katherine may have the perfect family and be great people in reality, they certainly seem very pleasant and professional - I am not really interested in any of them personally - but my point is that we all think we know them when we don’t. And therefore “popularity” ratings to an extent are built on manufactured narratives.

(And fwiw I think these PR exercises to present W & C as bordering on saintly is a very dangerous strategy imho. It’s more likely they are neither saints or sinners and are just doing their best in a very pressured situation they have found themselves in.)

Anyway, I used the example in Lownie’s book to explain it, eg we used to see the late QE2 as someone who always put duty before her personal affairs, but we now know that she covered up for Andrew and his sexual and financial wrongdoings over many years. And that spins a slightly different narrative around her doesn’t it?

Good post!

Well, yes, I guess Trump is popular.

But, I do think it’s useful to see the numbers. It’s a corrective to the prevailing wisdom that the monarchy is on its last legs.

Exactly! It's about 0.00002% of the population. I take little notice of you gov polls for that reason

Of course William and Kate are popular, amongst Royalists there really isn't anyone else to get worked up and excited about! They are the younger face of the Monarchy. There's no one else, until their children get older, then the whole cycle starts again, poor things

@Sourdillpicklesandmore your post is spot on. It's all about positive PR. I have just seen that Kate has put out another film/video. Apparently, she's doing a quarterly Mother Nature video? I'll keep my thoughts to myself on that one! For now!
(Don't want to derail)

I’m often called a royalist. I’m not. I’m interested in history and know about the RF. I should imagine I’m not the only one. My degree should really have been history instead I started off with English, changed to classics (which to be fair I loved), but yes history is my true calling. Sorry rambling.

that is my question, who are these people?

...but why let the truth get in the way?

Some of you need to get out more.