Poll Reveals Who Brits Prefer: Meghan Markle or Kate Middleton?
Every year, the YouGov portal conducts a survey to find out how popular the royal house is among the British. And, within this, who approves or who is repudiated. That is, whether or not in the last 365 acts the acts of each member of the royalty have sat well among the citizens.
We must also start by saying that none of them would be saved from a possible referendum, since only 24% of those surveyed have a completely positive opinion of the Windsors (although anyone would say so, having broken the record for the sale of souvenirs this year) .
Starting at the top of the list, there is a change from last year: while in 2018 the poll said Prince Harry was the most popular with 77% acclaim, this year his grandmother has won him. Because yes, it is Queen Elizabeth II who tops the list with 72% positive opinions.
Then, this time, the Duke of Sussex, which fell to 71%, also due to the multitude of controversies that have clouded what was expected as his year, with the birth of his son Archie, who, on the other hand , the British would have preferred to see more times and not the privacy policy that they maintain with him.
That is why his brother, the Duke of Cambridge, appears in third place, with 69% positive evaluations. Prince William, however, improves the results of Elizabeth II and Harry in terms of negative and neutral opinions, since if the queen had 10% negative and 17% neutral and the Duke of Sussex 9/17, the heir obtains 8 % negative and 22% neutral.
From the podium downwards it is, in short, what the different media have focused on. Because in the search for bait they have created a kind of duel between Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle to see which of the two won the favor of the people.
And the winner of this particular issue is, by far, the Duchess of Cambridge. Kate Middleton is in fourth position with 64% positive reviews, 10% negative and 22% neutral, while the difference is either they have not heard of her or they do not know / do not answer.
The funny thing is that three of the five adjectives with which they describe her coincide with those of Meghan Markle: Good role model, genuine, attractive, beautiful and admirable, the last three being the ones also used to define the Duchess of Sussex.
This, for its part, does not approve, staying in sixth position with 49% positive reviews, 16% negative and 28% neutral. The remaining two qualifiers that presuppose the ex-actress are self-assured and charming.
Of course, it is the same position it occupied last year, although with six points less, being again surpassed by the Duke of Edinburgh, who at 98 years of age still has 54% positive reviews (although also 21% negative) .
The truth is that the more formal and less disruptive profile with the traditions of the Dukes of Cambridge plays in their favor against the most unruly and modern Dukes of Sussex, although it should be noted that Harry and Meghan are more successful among the millennial generation (the most young people) while Guillermo and Kate benefit from the thinking of the baby boomers and generation X. That is, from 35 and up, more or less.
In the following positions are Prince Charles of England (7th), Princess Anne (8th), Zara Phillips, the queen's eldest granddaughter (9th) and the Countess of Wessex, Sofia, in tenth position.
At the tail, in fourteenth position, appears Princess Beatrice of York, with 24% positive opinions and, in last position, her father, Andrés, Duke of York, with 21% positive and 36% negative reviews. And that at the time of the survey had not yet come out her name linked to the scandal of the Epstein plot, about trafficking and sexual exploitation of minors.
