Overview
- An Ipsos poll of about 1,062 adults, carried out in March 2026, found support for the monarchy down to roughly 55 percent, the lowest reading in 33 years of the firm's royal polling.
- The steepest losses are among 18- to 34-year-olds, where backing has fallen to about 33 percent from much higher levels in the 2010s.
- Ipsos warns that comparisons with older waves should be treated with caution because it changed methodology in June 2025 from telephone quota sampling to an online probability panel.
- Despite the institutional decline, personal ratings remain strong for senior royals: roughly six in ten approve of King Charles III and about 71 percent approve of Prince William.
- Longer-term factors such as the Duke of York controversies, the Sussex interviews and the Queen's death, together with the recent arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, help explain the shift and could increase public debate about republicanism as about 27 percent now say they would prefer a republic.