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The Queen is Britain's favourite Royal. 57% believe that she should reign until the end of her life. Of the 1500 British people surveyed, only 13% want Britain to become a republic.

Queen still top of the pops

By PETE BELL
Sun Online

THE QUEEN received an early birthday present today when a poll named her Britain's favourite Royal.

Her Majesty, who celebrates her eightieth birthday on Friday will also be pleased to learn more than half the public want her to reign for the rest of her life.

About 57 per cent of those asked believed the Queen should be on the throne until she dies, while 16 per cent thought she should retire to make way for her grandson, Prince William (who would become King William V).

Only 12 per cent called for the Queen to step down in favour of the Prince of Wales.

Of the 1,500 questioned in the ITV News survey, 13 per cent were opposed to having a successor and want the country to become a republic.

The Duchess of Cornwall came bottom in a list of most popular royals with one per cent of the votes.

William was second with 21 per cent and the Princess Royal third with 11 per cent.

Charles and Prince Harry came joint fourth with 4 per cent each.

More than half felt Camilla should definitely not become Queen when Charles becomes King, while 29 per cent believed she should.

thesun.co.uk

SLG · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 6:26 pm Post subject:

Here's the results I've found from a MORI poll in 1999 for the Sunday Herald.

Celyn · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 7:14 pm Post subject:

Oh decision, decisions. Which to believe? The "Sun" or the "Sunday Herald". Gosh, I just can't decide. Smile

Aventinian · Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 11:58 am Post subject:

Well actually it would appear the Sun's poll was a MORI one too - so they do have equal weight. Not to mention the Herald's one used a sample of 1,000 people as opposed to the Sun's 1,500.

I'm not actually sure what the Scandanavian royal situation is or how exactly they would plan to scale down an operation that already provides the treasury with over £100 million of revenue a year, after the deduction of anything the Queen receives from the state. Politically I believe the monarchy has been scaled back too much and that the Queen ought to have some direct say in the operation of the Royal Prerogative.

So as a result of that, I'd have had to say 'none of these' in the Herald's poll.
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Blackleaf · Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 2:01 pm Post subject:

According to the OECD, Monarchies are generally wealthier than their Republican counterparts, are more stable, and there is more chance of a military coup happening in a Republic than in a Monarchy.

Also, of the 10 most democratic nations in the world, 8 of them are Constitutional Monarchies and 4 of those have Queen Elizabeth II as Head of State.
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Blackleaf · Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 2:06 pm Post subject:

And, according to Time magazine, only 19% of Brits want a Monarchy -

Firefox · Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 6:10 pm Post subject:

The one thing that does concern me is that there doesn't seem to be an individual breakdown of Scotland.

Our politics are subtly different (e.g. the "opposition" being the SNP in Scotland while it's the Tories in England). From my experience the majority of SNP members tend to be republics, ALL of the SSP and left wing in Scotland have a propensity towards republicanism and Tories are rarer than sabre-tooth haggis.

There was a "TV Poll" (which are invariably scientifically invalid) which had a big "how relevant is the monarchy" debate what had Republicanism relatively high in Scotland. The subsequent TV Phone Poll showed majority support for the Monarchy from everywhere except Scotland. The only interesting thing was that it showed a difference between Scotland and the rest of the UK.

I find it hard to believe a Poll for Scotland only would be exactly the same. I'm not suggesting it will be a majority, but I think it would be closer up here.
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