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Turning away from the kingdom - now also on the popularity scale
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After their sensational television interview, the British Prince Harry and his wife Meghan are as unpopular with the British as never before.
In a YouGov poll published on Friday, more participants expressed a negative opinion about Harry for the first time, and only 45 percent are positive about him.
His wife Meghan gets off even worse: 58 percent of those surveyed have a bad opinion of her, only around a third see her as positive.
Younger Brits, on the other hand, showed higher approval ratings.
In the 18- to 24-year-old age group, three out of five respondents said they like Harry - more than one in two said that about Meghan.
Attitudes towards the other members of the royal family have not changed, according to the survey.
At the top of the popularity scale is Queen Elizabeth II with approval ratings of 80 percent.
Harry's brother Prince William and his wife Kate also have popularity ratings of around 75 percent.
Only heir to the throne, Prince Charles, suffered losses in popularity after the interview, and positive opinions about him fell by nine percentage points to 49 percent.
Racism allegations against the British palace
Meghan and Harry's television interview, broadcast on Sunday in the US and Monday in the UK, made waves in the UK.
The heaviest weight is the accusation of racism - which Prince William rejected on Thursday.
Meghan said in it that during her first pregnancy there were "worries and conversations" about her unborn child in the royal family about "how dark his skin may be when he is born."
In addition, the 39-year-old former US actress described that despite her suicidal thoughts, psychological help was denied because of the constant negative media coverage about her.
Harry reported that he felt "abandoned" by his father, Charles.
The palace said the family wanted to work through the allegations privately.
But you take it "very seriously."
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