Also the current queen Elisabeth appears pretty bland to me. I have never seen her do anything out of the ordinary, she is beeign driven arround and waves at people, I watched her speeches, they are all spineless and shallow, written by other people, she probably never said a word of her own to the general public. If thats not bland I dont know what is. People connect with people they like, queen Elisabeth is well liked, people connect with her.
Elizabeth II: (I posted this in another thread, but it's fits here to)
Her Ipsos MORI approval ratings were above 70% from 1992 to 2000 (with the exception of 66% in 1998), over 80% from 2002 to 2016 (sometimes 90%) just 5% dissatisfied in 2016, a YouGov approval rating in 2012 showed 86%.
2. And let's go through the YouGov most admired person in the UK poll:
2014 - The 30 most admired persons in the UK:
1: The Queen with 18,74%
9: William with 2,6%
19: Kate with 0,80%
Harry was not even included in the poll.
2015 - The 15 most admired Women in the UK:
1: The Queen with 17%
5: Kate with 5,2%
2015 - The 15 most admired Men in the UK:
5: William with 6,5%
8: Harry with 5,9%
2016 - The 30 most admired Women in the UK:
1: The Queen with 19,5%
7: Kate with 3,6%
2016 - The 30 most admired Men in the UK:
4: Harry with 6,4%
6: William with 5,6%
The Queen was also polled the most admirred woman in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Germany in the 2016 poll. She is (as experts says) the most popular head of state (many would say person) in the world.
So yes, she is as you wrore ''well liked'', but she is also beloved.
3. QEII is the reigning monarch of 16 countries - including the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. She is head of the Commonwealth and is in that capacity figurehead for 2 billion people. She has reigned for 65 years. This makes her the world's most Iconic, famous and well-known head of state (many will say person).
4. She traveled around the UK until she was 86. She used to be driven along the crowds in the Queenmobile (open car) from 1952 to 2012 (did it in 2016 on the occasion of her 90th birthday). Went on several walkabout (walked through the crowds with her smile) from 1970 to 2013. (did it in 2016 on the occasion of 90th birthday). She traveled around the Commonwealth/world from 1952 to 2011 (Italy, France Germany and Malta in 2014/2015). She is known for her kindness and there are so many touching stories about her. She comforts her employees, traumatized aid workers etc.
Our beloved, iconic, remarkable Elizabeth II is the UK and the Commonwealth and she is as Obama said (last year) a jewel to the world.
She is an international icon and the embodiment of royalty. She has dedicated her life to the UK and the Commonwealth, and have spent the last 63 years building relations and friendship between nations as no other. She's was known as the world's top diplomat until at least 2011 (when she almost stopped traveling) She was also with her parents, sister and Winston Churchill a symbol of peace during World War II.
She is as several of the so-called experts said on British/American/Canadian television during her 90th birthday celebrations and Jubilee celebrations in 2012 a symbol of continuity and goodness in the world. And as Baroness Scotland said during an interview: She is kind, caring, warm, forgiving and concerned with poor people, young people and people who are struggling.
Monarchs, Presidents, former Prime Ministers, former employees and family member have said the same and the Queen herself has mentioned it several times in her speeches over the years.
She is simply THE QUEEN and world leders around the world admirer her, and she make me proud to be half-British. We should be proud to live in this admirable lady's reign.
There will be no one like her again, and I agree with Tony Parsons that she will be the last monarch who will be a truly unifying force in our nation, but the monarchy will continue to endure in to future with Charles, William and George.
Prince Charles is not liked at all, people dont connect with him. Doesnt matter if you are royal or not, have you ever seen a rally of american presidents? They are elected and many people connect with them just fine. They might not have 80% approval like Queen Elisabeth, but I am sure Prince Charles wont have either.
Charles: Around 70% approval ratings and 60% thinks he's going to be a good king? Not bad for a man who has received so much criticism. And he ia actually wery good at conecting with people - have you seen him on a walkabout?
The British Monarchy: Record high support in several polls since 2002, some of over 80%. And as I said in my other post, why change a system that has 70-80% (sometimes over 80%) support in the population (that's the case in the UK, Denmark and Norway) and according to many constitutional experts, the best system one can have.
American presidents:
1. The American political system is completely broken.
2. The President of the United States is a politician.
3. They are lucky if they gets 50% approval.
King Willem-Alexander is popular and relevant in the Netherlands, not least because of his choice of wife - what if he had been bypassed?
You and your amazing posts! Agrees that King Willem Alexander is popular, but his 70% approval ratings are far lower than those of Queen Elizabeth II, (80-90%) King Harald V (80-95%), Queen Margrethe II (75-80%), Frederik and Mary (above 80%). Even Haakon and Mette-Marit (who have lost a lot of their popularity) have higher approval ratings than Willem Alexander. The Dutch monarchy has also lost support after he took over, but it now seems to have recovered.