Meghan Markle and Harry: Expert discusses future in US
A poll carried out between March 9 and 10, after Meghan and Harry‘s interview with Oprah aired both in the US and the UK, shows 34 percent of those surveyed want the UK to become a republic with an elected head of state. Those who said they want Britain to remain a constitutional monarchy with a Queen or King as head of state were 66 percent.
The results of this poll, conducted online by Survation on 1,037 British adults, have been hailed by campaigning group Republic.
The organisation, which calls for replacing the monarch with an elected head of state, wrote on Twitter: “34 percent is the highest support for a republic has been for a long time.”
Another pollster, YouGov, carried out a comprehensive study on the future of the Firm between October 2 and 4 – in which a significantly smaller amount of people expressed their favour towards republicanism.
Of the 1626 Britons surveyed at the time, only 23 percent spoke in favour of an elected head of state against 63 percent who preferred a monarchy.
Royal Family news: A poll shows 36 percent of those polled are now in favour of an elected head of state (Image: GETTY)
Royal Family news: The Queen acceded to the throne in 1952 (Image: GETTY)
The remaining 14 percent of the surveyed responded “don’t know”.
This latest poll by Survation sparks even more concern for the future of the monarchy when age brackets are analysed.
The majority of people within Generation Z and Millennials…
