EXCLUSIVE: Half of Brits say Harry and Meghan should lose their titles

EXCLUSIVE: More than half of Brits say Harry and Meghan should lose their royal titles and patronages in the wake of Spare fallout, poll reveals

• Majority of 1,500 people polled for MailOnline say couple must lose Sussex title
• One in four didn’t believe a single thing that Harry told Tom Bradby on Sunday
• Brits split on whether they should be invited to coronation – marginally in favour 

The majority of Britons believe Harry and Meghan should lose all their royal titles and patronages following the release of Spare, a new poll for MailOnline exclusively revealed today.

As more errors in the memoirs emerge each day, one in four people who watched Harry’s ITV interview with Tom Bradby last Sunday also said they ‘believed nothing’ that he said on the primetime show.

But Britons are split on whether Harry and Meghan should be invited to King Charles III’s coronation at Westminster Abbey on May 6, with the 1,500 people polled still marginally in favour of Harry’s father asking them to London to see him crowned.

The majority of Britons believe Harry and Meghan should lose all their royal titles and patronages following the release of Spare, a new poll for MailOnline exclusively revealed today

Harry greets his friend Tom Bradby at the start of his ITV interview. A quarter of people didn’t believe a single thing the prince said, a new poll has revealed

The poll by Redfield & Wilton Strategies, on behalf of MailOnline, also reveals that Harry’s attacks on Charles, his brother William and sister-in-law Kate have not changed the public’s perception of them at all. Kate’s polling has improved.

Princess Anne is the most popular royal: Queen’s daughter is voted Brits’ favourite royal with Wills and Kate in second and third place (and Harry, Meghan and Prince Andrew last) 

The Prince of Wales’ polling remains strong despite being accused of attacking his younger sibling after a blazing row where he called Meghan ‘difficult’ and ‘abrasive’.

Tory MPs are also demanding Harry and Meghan are stripped of the Sussex title and will push forward with legislation to downgrade royal status because their constituents ‘feel badly let down’.

Today’s new poll suggests that the majority of people agree with them. More than half (56%) of people asked said that the couple should now lose all their titles and patronages. Only a quarter (26%) said that they should retain them. 

Of the 1,500 people spoken to, 85% had read or heard some of the details in Spare, released on Tuesday.  

Despite Harry’s PR blitz and the book being leaked in Spain, more than half (54%) said they had not watched the interview with Tom Bradby. 

Of those who did, half (50%) believed ‘some’ of the Duke of Sussex’s claims and just one in ten (13%) believed all of what he said. A quarter (27%) didn’t believe a single thing that he said on the ITV show.

Harry has used his book to attack Charles and reportedly crossed the King’s ‘red line’ with attacks on Camilla in his memoir.

The next time the royals are likely to be together is in May for the coronation, but today’s poll is split on whether Harry and Meghan should be made welcome.

More than a third (43%) say yes they should be invited. But 41% said no and a further 16% said they still weren’t sure. 

Charles, William and Meghan all remain popular with the public. More than half (60%) said that their view of the King was unchanged. William was on 55% for the same question and 59% for Kate. 

Yesterday a devastating YouGov poll found almost seven in ten people (68 percent) held a negative view of the Duke of Sussex, with less than a quarter seeing him in a positive light.

He recorded his lowest ever favourability rating of -44, down from -38 last week, according to the polling organisation.

Harry and wife Meghan fared even worse among older Brits, who were more likely to hold a ‘very negative’ view of the duke and duchess than they were of scandal-hit Prince Andrew.

Prince Harry’s popularity among the British public has plunged to a record low while attitudes towards members of his own family including King Charles remain roughly the same amid the fallout from his bombshell memoir Spare, according to a new poll

Among over-65s, 60 percent said they held a ‘very negative’ view of Andrew but 69 percent held the same view of Meghan and 73 percent of Prince Harry.

Two-fifths (41 percent) said they believed Harry’s motivation for releasing Spare was to make money, while only one in five (21 percent) thought he wanted to tell ‘his side of the story’.

YouGov polled 1,691 British adults on Tuesday and Wednesday this week, and found Princess Anne and the Prince and Princess of Wales scored the most positive overall responses.

Anne, who has not been embroiled in the furore over Harry’s book, was the most popular royal.

Despite recent controversies, the majority of those polled said the Royal Family was good for Britain and wanted to keep it.

But the proportion of people who said they were embarrassed by the monarchy rose from 15 percent in September last year to 21 percent this week.

Meanwhile a separate poll for GB News found the public had an overwhelmingly negative view of Harry.

Asked for the word or phrase that first came to mind when thinking about the duke, the most common responses included ‘idiot’, ‘spoilt’, ‘brat’ and ‘stupid’.

The GB News poll of 1,160 British adults found only a third said they were currently proud of the Royal Family.

Among 18 to 24 year olds, only 10 percent said they were proud of the royals, compared to 59 percent of over-65s.

Matt Goodwin, a professor of politics at Rutherford College, University of Kent, told GB News the poll’s findings suggested Harry’s public image had been damaged by the publication of his best-selling book.

He said: ‘His publisher might be happy but I suspect his public relations team won’t be happy at all.

‘To me, this brand looks like it is heading in only one direction: south.’

Commentator and author Jeetendr Sehdev told Forbes.com that the publication of Spare risked being ‘brand suicide’ for Harry.

He said the book’s focus on family ‘tantrums’ and media coverage risked ‘brand fatigue’ with an audience more concerned with financial worries and strikes.

Mr Sehdev said the memoir had generated ‘overwhelmingly negative sentiment’ in traditional and social media on both sides of the Atlantic, and had not changed perceptions of the Royal Family.

He added: ‘The problem with Prince Harry is simple; I don’t believe his brand is influential, I believe it’s imploding.’

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