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

Let me introduce you to the concept of sarcasm. Clearly Im extrapolating from the poll that it seems that whatever a Royal man does, its always blamed on the non Royal woman.

It’s actually fascinating to look back through individual favourability trackers.

From November 2017 (when their engagement was announced) to October 2019 (just after the successful South Africa tour but before the Bradby interview aired), Meghan’s favourability rose by 6 points, while Harry’s fell by 10. Does anyone know what caused that sudden drop for Harry?

It’s a shame there were no polls taken around their actual wedding (I suspect Meghan’s ratings would have been even higher in May 2018) but it seems polling only resumed to gauge public opinion on Andrew, as the Virginia Giuffre allegation became a major news story in late summer/autumn 2019.

Anyway, it’s quite something to witness Harry’s nose dive from one of the most beloved members of the royal family to one of the least liked in the space of 10 years.

That really is fascinating @EmpressSisi! , I’ve never bothered looking before, do you know the date of the massive drop 📉 for Harry? I’m rubbish at reading charts this small.

That makes sense.

Everyone (well, functioning adults) accepts that families have their disagreements and annoyances. But they also expect that the normal.ups and downs of family life are managed within the family.

Obviously that doesn't apply to abusive situations - but then you need to.provide the info, not vague hints of abuse that then fizzle out to nothing.

Making the accusation but then not providing the actual.info so people can.make up their own mind? Doesn't cut it. If you make the accusation, provide the reasons. Don't claim to be hiding the info to 'protect' anyone - if you were protecting them you wouldn't make the accusation.

Most people can see through BS, and that is reflected in the popularity figures.

Excellent @EmpressSisi ! And I agree with @Baital, clearly his drop in popularity was due to his own actions and can’t be blamed on either the press or other members of his family!

Thanks @EmpressSisi - it's good to see the individual trackers (had just been looking on the website).

There is a story that is often pushed by pro-Sussex (and anti-monarchy) sources that the Prince and Princess of Wales are popular at present because they have no competition, and that they felt threatened by the Sussexes. One example is in the article in the Independent on Saturday https://archive.is/8oNAf
'The couple currently enjoy unrivalled popularity because they have no competition. No doubt William would like to keep it that way, but a sage adviser would recommend otherwise'.

The trackers make it clear that their popularity ratings have remained high throughout all the changes of the last few years, even at the start when the Sussexes were present.

I think @Baital's reasoning re 'not washing dirty linen in public' makes sense.

To clarify, if the linen is genuinely dirty, do what you need to do to wash it.

But don't hint at dirt from others and then not provide the back up info to let people judge for themselves whether you are actually doing most of the dirtying yourself!

The key difference is that even when their favourability dip, they always bounce back quickly and maintain a steady mid 70s ratings between them. This is likely due to lack of evidence behind the allegations against them and their composed response: they remain dignified, avoid complaining and don’t explain.

This is the bit that the Sussexes still haven't learned.

Another observation:

Harry’s favourability, while still low, appears to be stabilising and has shown modest improvement (a recurring trend in his stats) whereas Meghan’s has been in slow, steady decline.

While it’s risky to draw predictions from these numbers alone, they do suggest that, should Harry and Meghan divorce, he could potentially regain public favour by framing himself as the prodigal son manipulated by an ambitious spouse. He is unlikely to return to his pre-Megxit popularity, but he could plausibly maintain a steady 50–60 rating given time and positive PR spin.

Meghan’s path to reversing her decline is far less clear. Any improvement would likely depend on a divorce narrative in which she is portrayed as the victim of an abusive husband, or on producing concrete evidence of royal racism. Even then, previous attempts to present herself as a victim (of the media and the royal family) have already failed to boost her ratings: her favourability fell from 39 to 31 despite proclaiming Catherine made her cry/the royal racist accusation in the Oprah interview, and declined further from 30 following the Queen’s death in September 2022 to 23 after her grievances were published in Spare in January 2023.

I was genuinely shocked to see she had fallen to a lowly 19 in the latest poll!

I'm surprised it's as low as 19.

The trouble for her is that the 'victim' narrative, which has been her main line throughout (and she continued even recently in the Bloomberg interview) is becoming increasingly untenable.
The reports from Vanity Fair and Hollywood Reporter show that others are actually the victims, casting doubts on her account of the time in the Royal Family. The revolving door of PR professionals just adds to that.

Is there any point at looking at individual popularity trackers when the whole mess is in an inexorable death spiral?

I always thought the wheels would fall off when E2 went and it's proved to be the case. IMO they should have walked into the sunset then but as it is they've simply and painfully delayed the inevitable.

The scandalous revelations they've opened themselves up to in the meantime are simultaneously entertaining and revolting in the meantime though.

I can't look away 😜

That's an odd conclusion from the stats the OP posted. From a quick look it would seem the core RF members have higher favourability ratings than most politicians?

Not lying no and its absolutely fine if you choose to support these people, personally I have different views, e.g. why should William charge the NHS etc high rents when nurses have to visit food banks, why is he allowed to do a small number of public engagements and spend hundreds of thousands of pounds of tax payers money every year, in fact any time any Royal goes overseas on an official visit it costs the tax payer six figures and is it not a bit ironic the whole earthshot thing whilst flying around in a helicopter and why has Andrew never been investigated etc do we seriously believe that he only indulged in these unsuitable friends in America.

Plus despite her attempts to be in the public eye all the time the overall effect that has emerged is - attention seeking, liar, weird with her children, desperate and oh god not again. Any business success that she claims has been suffocated by the previous I mentioned. Some press have also in the last week tried to run with stories that " Kate will be fearful " if Meghan came to the UK blah blah. Nothing could be further from the truth I imagine. You only had to see Meghan's face that day at the walkabout after QE died. Meghan is seen by many as a has been - an insignificant joke.

Well of course they do. Politicians, love them or hate them have to make decisions that affect people every day. Its easy for people who not only are of little consequence to the running of the country, but also have a huge machine covering up for their every cock up, who are accountable to no one to be more popular! Wearing a £1000 dress twice is far less likely to upset people than trying to decide on budgets for the NHS.

I excluded the micro picture (OP stats) in favour of the macro which would seem to indicate a slow slide into irrelevance.

Politicians come and go at the whim of the electorate and aren't a valid comparison.

The only one in slow, steady decline is Meghan. Even the “should we continue to have a monarchy?” question keeps peaking and dipping (and ultimately it’s only dropped five points in 15 years!) Honestly, I’m sure the royal family will be absolutely thrilled with that, given everything that’s happened in that time 🤣

Honestly this poll seems more like a vanity proojec the the royals as it doesn't reflect what the common people think. So they either send it to a group of people, also doesn't Camilla nephew arguably works in yougov? It seems manipulated to me.

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Still a mqnioualted vanity poll. Camilla and Charles that popular? Give me a break.

I totally agree and given what is in the news currently, given that the former Prince Andrew left Windsor during the night having been banished to Sandringham in disgrace, given that it was revealed by Ghislaine Maxwell in the Epstein files that the infamous photo of him and Virginia Giuffre R.I.P. is real - I think it’s quite offensive to keep publishing these polls today actually.

So yeah, it’s basically a vanity project… but that’s fine, because apparently it “doesn’t reflect what the common people think anyway” (aka they didn’t poll you and your five mates who hate the royal family — never mind YouGov’s actual methodology or the fact these stats have been consistent for at least 10 years of regular polling) 🤣

And it’s rigged, obviously — Camilla’s nephew works at YouGov and is secretly cooking the books — yet it still only scraped 42% favourability in her favour. Imagine fixing the stats and still flopping 🤣🤦🏼‍♀️

But hey, you don’t like the results, so suddenly it’s not legit 🤣