Support for Monarchy dwindling

[TheHaplessWit]

Support for Monarchy now down to 45%

Following on from the previous yougov polls, it seems the constant negativity about Andrew, Sarah Ferguson, William dodging tax / evicting people, Charles ignoring his brothers actions etc... has pushed royal support down to 45%.

How long until a future election process includes a party saying they'll have a referrendum on the Monarchy as part of their manifesto? probably not next time (3 years), but maybe the one after that?

I didn’t understand that actually. I read it differently.

Yes it’s really bad form from posters who constantly name change yet post on here regularly, who then challenge and confront regular posters who don’t name change on their opinions, not cool.

I have a great many opinions of Afghanistan from a very up close and personal viewpoint, especially as my dh almost died there many times .
I know much That I can certainly not tell some opinionated keyboard warrior, who has no security clearance and no idea about things further than their own opinion.

Rather suspicious timing too.

Oh here we go.

Last time I checked, it was within Mumsnet guidelines to choose whether one name changes or not.

Apologies! I didn’t know I needed security clearance.

You are not the only one with close relatives who serve by the way.

I can only sufficiently answer your questions until you reveal your previous usernames so I can gauge your previous posting position fully .

Goodness me, why would anyone reveal past names to you?
That's ridiculous!
There are all sorts of reasons posters NC. It's a personal decision and they don't need another poster reading their past history and making some spurious judgement on them

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they don't need another poster reading their past history and making some spurious judgement on them

Yet that poster hiding behind yet another name change has done exactly that.

Name changing is to protect posters from being attacked in the exactly the way that poster is doing to me!
it’s not supposed to be weaponised or used as an anonymous shield!

Google the Norwegian Royal family. They are appalling too.

This article really sets everything out very well

No wonder support for the Monarchy is dwindling a lot

When you read an article like this, factual and informative, you wonder how in god's name it got to this point

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/feb/14/will-police-question-andrew-andrew-mountbatten-windsor-epstein-relationship?CMP=share_btn_url

Thank you Simpsonthecat

Edited to make clear the next bit is in response to @jeffgoldblum and @BigWillyLittleTodger

If anyone feels attacked then that was not my intention. I will admit to feeling a bit irked on these threads of late to be honest as I feel there has been a lot of pivoting by royalists in general.

I know everyone is united in detesting and condemning AMW and that’s a good thing.
But it wasn’t long ago that some of Lownie’s assertions about the extent of the cover up were being challenged on RF threads.

I just hope everyone has enough information to go on now to agree that AMW has been enabled for decades.

And let’s be fair and honest, the rules about targeting individual posters works both ways.

Please feel free to report me to Mumsnet HQ though if you are not happy.

The YouGov poll has support for the monarchy at 64%. Unsurprisingly, the Republic polls all seem to show significantly lower support compared to the independent Polls.

I am not a royalist!

My goodness! That’s one humdinger of an article simpsonthecat! Thanks for linking!

“Writing in the New Statesman, Brown referenced a BBC investigation which found many of Epstein’s private planes had travelled through Stansted and other UK airports, where women “were transferred from one Epstein plane to another”.

So the alleged trafficking was taking place on uk soil? 😲

But Brown had been “told privately” that previous Metropolitan police inquiries “related to the former Prince Andrew did not properly check vital evidence of flights”.
“The Stansted revelations alone require them to interview Andrew,” he argued

I mean, 😲 people try and make out that the royals have no power or influence and yet there is more evidence of it, again and again, in this instance, officers who are supposed to uphold the law, prepared to look the other way? It’s so shocking!

Former Victim’s Commissioner Vera Baird told the Guardian that she had spoken to the police about Mountbatten-Windsor before the Covid pandemic struck, but was assured the issue was being investigated thoroughly in the US.
“Clearly, [Mountbatten-Windsor] is not going to do anything himself. Clearly, there’s a limit to what the royal family can do,” she said. “So the police need to investigate.”

That’s pathetic! Sorry, Vera Baird, but there is plenty the RF can and should do!

But Brown had been “told privately” that previous Metropolitan police inquiries “related to the former Prince Andrew did not properly check vital evidence of flights”.
“The Stansted revelations alone require them to interview Andrew,” he argued

The metropolitan police have, it appears, been covering up for the RF by 'soft' means i.e., "we can't see it, so we don't know it" for some time and I wonder if they will be held to account for this. Whom was in charge?

But they're not the only ones. What have our intelligence services been doing whilst women were allegedly trafficked on British soil as part of a bribery spying operation and even allowed into Royal palaces (!!!) if what I have read here is true?

Remember when VG's lawyer requested the police look into the allegations against AMW and they wrung their hands and said 'this is a matter for American law authorities to deal with, nothing to see here' presumably because she was of age in the UK and trafficked from the USA and not within the UK?'

They refused to look into it. One assumes to protect the Royals.

The whole thing is sickening. What a new low for society and a sad message to women.

Exactly. This isnt just about a misguidedly mother protecting her bad apple son. Its about people who's job it is to uphold the law ( Parliament and the police) colluding, hiding and protecting a member of the RF, and the Head of State not only turning a blind eye to potentially criminal activity, but using her staff and the entire State establishment to cover it, and who knows what else up. Its Banana Republic stuff.

Well the UK won’t have a figurehead president, because sadly for all you very obvious republican lovers, the Royal family ,at least for the next generation or so, is going nowhere as no political party would permit a vote on their abolition and even if they did, currently it wouldn’t pass, oh and by the way, did you see the reaction of the majority of the crowd when someone shouted a comment to the King about his idiot brother, they didn’t back the heckler and William is in Saudi Arabia trying to build bridges

Hilarious!

We're talking a crowd of about between 30 and 100 people, do you think that represents a whole of the country? I don't!
Royalists hate anyone criticising their betters!
But I agree, they aren't going anywhere.
Unfortunately

I am realistic I know that

I dont know. Almost definitely not for a generation, but I think George will be the last King, if not William. Going from William I to William the Last would be quite apt though! Maybe they should do that. I dont think, in 100 years time there will be any Monarchies left in Europe.

Virginia was very brave to speak up in the face of it all, with so much cover up going on, it must have been very hard. It does make you wonder what the rest of the family knew. Surely there was gossip at the least between staff and that sort of thing. I don't think the public will want to keep paying for coronations- the late Queen was unusual in being on the throne so long.

I think the RF it’s just going to go away but it’s getting worse every day, the Daily Mail seems to especially have it in for Andrew. It’s been weeks now since the new files were released and still nothing from any of them, apart from vague mumblings from Prince Edward.

I can’t believe anyone is trying to defend any of them at this point. Someone talking about Prince George being the last king further up the thread? I’d be disappointed if Charles makes it through his, they’re a bunch of over privileged paedophile apologists, all of them and should go.

The mood of nation is pissed off. Reminds me of that time after Diana died when the queen was silent.