Harry's popularity ratings in the UK in free fall
Created: 2023-01-12Updated: 2023-01-12, 6:14 p.m
The popularity of the royal family and the monarchy as a whole is suffering from the drama surrounding Prince Harry.
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The memoirs of the renegade British royal are selling like hot cakes.
But in the old homeland, Prince Harry doesn't make friends with it, it seems.
London – British Prince Harry (38) has fallen further on the popularity scale of the royals in Great Britain after the publication of his memoirs.
As a representative survey by the opinion research institute Yougov revealed, two-thirds of adults in the United Kingdom now have a negative image of the royal.
A quarter of those polled on January 10th and 11th see him in a positive light.
In the bookstores and online shops, however, this had no negative effects.
The English edition of the autobiography alone, entitled "Spare" (in German: "Reserve"), was sold a total of 1.4 million times on the first day of its publication on Tuesday, or in the online shopping cart, according to the publisher Penguin Random House in the US announced.
Prince Harry has spoiled himself, especially among the older generation in Great Britain.
According to the Yougov survey, he is even less popular among those over 65 than Prince Andrew (62), who has fallen into disrepute for his involvement in the abuse scandal involving the late US multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein.
According to this, 73 percent of people of retirement age stated that they had a "very bad" image of Harry.
Just 60 percent of this age group said the same thing about King Charles III's brother, Prince Andrew, according to the survey.
More than 40 percent of people in Great Britain also believe that Harry's financial interest was the main reason for the publication of the autobiography.
21 percent, on the other hand, see it as an attempt to present their point of view.
Harry's brother Prince William and King's wife Camilla (75) can't benefit from the royal troubles that the book has sparked: According to the survey, William had to give up his rank as the most popular royal to his aunt Princess Anne (72).
According to the survey, the proportion of those who see Camilla in a positive light fell from 50 to 46 percent.
Fewer and fewer Brits "proud" of monarchy
The popularity of the royal family and the monarchy as a whole is suffering from the drama surrounding Prince Harry, the poll shows.
About two-thirds of Britons (64 percent) still wanted to keep the monarchy.
But the number of those who are proud of it has fallen from 55 percent last September to 43 percent this week.
The more than 500-page autobiography, which Harry penned with the help of ghostwriter JR Moehringer, includes his perspective on the tensions within the royal family and many personal details.
Among other things, Harry writes that he sniffed cocaine, experienced his first time with an older woman and had a serious falling out with brother William.
The fact that controversial details had already become known before the start of sales did not harm the sale - quite the opposite.
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Gina Centrello, Publishing President of the Random House Group, described Harry's memoir as heartfelt, courageous and intimate.
"Spare" is the story of someone you thought you already knew.
"But now we can really understand Prince Harry through his own words," Britain's PA news outlet quoted Centrello as saying.
""Spare" is a book that must be read and we are proud to publish it." dpa
