Prince Harry’s reputation among the British public has nosedived to another record low as the fallout from his explosive bestselling book continues
Prince Harry’s reputation among the British public has nosedived to another record low as the fallout from his explosive bestselling book continues.
The devastating YouGov poll revealed his popularity among members of the public has slipped further since ‘Spare’ hit the shelves, with four in 10 people believing Harry released the book with the main motivation of ‘making money’.
Over , up from 58 per cent in May, with less than a quarter (24 per cent) now seeing him in a positive light, the survey shows.
The prince’s net favourability among the public this week hit at an all-time low of -44, with his wife recording -42 as his deeply personal revelations from ‘Spare’ continue to dominate headlines across the world.
The poll also found that Harry and wife Meghan are now so disliked by older Brits that their popularity ratings are worse than Prince Andrew’s among the over-65s group.
Prince Harry’s popularity among the British public has slumped to an all-time low, a new poll has suggested
Prince Harry described the British public as being among ‘the most credulous people in the world’ as the fallout from his explosive new book continues.Pictured: Royal fans line the Mall near Buckingham Palace to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in June 2012
Prince Harry’s book, Spare, was released on January 10 and quickly became one of the fastest selling non-fiction books ever, but the fallout from the Duke’s book looks set to linger
Just over a fifth of those polled (21 per cent) believed Harry penned ‘Spare’ to tell his own story.
Among the royals to do well in the eyes of the public were Princess Anne, who topped the popularity table with more than 91 per cent of those asked holding a positive view on her.
She was closely followed by the Prince and Princess of Wales, with 84 per cent of those polled saying they held the pair in high esteem.
It was bad news however for the Duchess of Sussex, as 87 per cent of the survey’s respondents said they viewed her negatively.
Prince Andrew was also among the lowest scorers in the royal family, with 82 per cent polling negatively against the Duke of York.
It comes as the prince used his bombshell memoirs to rail against both the press and the British public for reading and believing newspapers.
In one of Spare’s incendiary chapters, the Duke turns his guns on the ‘c**p’ British press and also fires off shots at what he claims is the naivety of Britons who turn to traditional media for their news.
The development also comes just days after he .
During the explosive rant in ‘Spare’, Harry blames the British public for both reading and believing newspapers.
He labels them among the ‘most credulous’ and writes: ‘Everyone’s guilty for buying the papers. But hopefully, no one actually believes them.
‘But of course they did.People did believe, and that was the whole problem.
‘Britons, among the most literal people on the planet, were also the most credulous.
‘Even if they did not believe every word, there was always that residue of wonder.’
In his latest television interview to plug his memoir, the prince claimed that the launched a war against him – working in collusion with the British Press – to undermine the credibility of his story.
It comes days after the Duke told Good Morning America that he ‘doesn’t think it’s ever going to be possible’ for his family to return to his home country permanently.
The Duke continued his blistering attacks on the press, claiming that the media would make his family’s lives ‘unsurvivable’ if they were ever to return to the UK.
It comes days after Prince Harry revealed that he and Meghan will likely never return to the UK full-time – or rejoin the Monarchy as working royals
Harry and Meghan relocated from the UK to California in early 2020, and have, since early 2021, been raising their two children, Archie and Lilibet, in a $14.65 million mansion in Montecito – thousands of miles away from the Duke’s family
Princess Anne (pictured in London today) was rated as the most popular royal in the YouGov poll
He told host and former NFL star Michael Strahan: ‘I don’t think that even if there was an agreement or an arrangement between me and my family there’s that third party [the British press] that’s going to do everything they can to make sure that that isn’t possible, not stopping us from going back but making it unsurvivable.’
Harry and Meghan relocated from the UK to California in early 2020, and have, since early 2021, been raising their two children, Archie and informative post Lilibet, in a $14.65 million mansion in Montecito – thousands of miles away from the Duke’s family.
The couple first made the shocking announcement that they were going to step back from their royal duties on January 8, 2020.
At the time, they wrote in a joint statement that they had reached the decision after ‘many months of reflection and internal discussions.’