Now the British let their anger run free. Shortly before the latest biography about Duchess Meghan and Prince Harry appeared, the Sussexes seemed to have lost their sympathies in Great Britain.
Duchess Meghan, 38, and Prince Harry, 35, "should be banned from the Royals," the British said before the current biography of the couple was published. The book "Finding Freedom – Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family" is causing great outrage in the United Kingdom – and not only among Royal experts: According to a survey among the people, the majority of respondents find Harry and Meghan disrespectful to the royal family.
Duchess Meghan and Prince Harry: British call for exclusion from the royal family
According to the newspaper "Mirror", 2,000 adults in Great Britain were interviewed as part of the survey by the market research company "One Poll" after the first extracts from the book by the authors Carolyn Durand and Omid Scobie were published. According to this, four out of ten British believe that Duchess Meghan and Prince Harry should be permanently excluded from the royal family.
Many of the Queen's grandchildren are apparently horrified by the couple's behavior. More than half of the respondents, around 57 percent, believe that descriptions in the controversial biography and the public focus on private family matters by Meghan and Harry are "inappropriate".
Compatriots are "sad" about the strained relationship with the royal family
Above all, the division of the Sussexes and the royal family, especially the strained relationship with Queen Elizabeth, 94, finds two thirds, around 67 percent, "sad". The British people therefore have the impression that the relationship between the couple and their relatives has deteriorated significantly.
Some of the respondents expressed the pain of this in a very angry demand: Around 40 percent believe that Meghan and Harry should finally be "banished" from the royal family.
Recent scandals are lowering sympathy values
An echo from the people that the Queen should be another slap in the face. Prince Andrews, 60, suspected of being involved in the scandal surrounding convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, † 66, has already made sympathy for the royal family plummet. The Megxit seems to have been another accelerator.
The numbers speak for it: More than half, 54 percent to be exact, confirm that their opinion of the Royals has declined since the allegations about Prince Andrew have been made. Almost a third, around 30 percent, cite the withdrawal of the Sussexes from their royal obligations as the decisive factor for their now more distant stance on the royal family.
This ranking is surprising
Nevertheless, one thing is surprising: despite the bad mood in his homeland, Prince Harry is the most popular family member of the Royals after the Queen. Duchess Catherine, 38, and Prince William, 38, followed in third place. Princess Anne, 69, and Prince Charles, 71, occupy the top ranks.
Meghan, on the other hand, lands with Prince Andrew in the back of the popularity scale. An outsider position, from which a restart probably has bad cards at first.
Sources used: Mirror, One Poll
This article originally appeared on Gala.de.