...a new low point in royal approval.
By Tyler Durden: A survey that has been asking UK residents periodically if they think the country's monarchy is important or whether it should be abolished has reached a new low point in royal approval.
As Statista's Katharina Buchholz shows in the chart below, the latest installment in 2024, only 51 percent of Brits said the monarchy was very or quite important, while 31 percent said it was not very or not at all important. Another 15 percent of Brits wanted to see the monarchy be abolished.
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The perceived importance of the British monarchy reached low points before at just 59 percent finding it important in 2003 and just 55 percent saying the same in 2021. The biggest overall losses happened between the mid-1980s and the early 2000s, though, and coincided with the rise in popularity of Princess Diana, who divorced then-heir to the throne Charles in 1996 and died in a tragic car accident in 1997.
In 1984, 86 percent had still found the institution very or quite important.
