Royal Family News: Queen Elizabeth Is Making Prince Charles Look Bad

British royal family news reveals that in just about every opinion poll Queen Elizabeth is always the most popular royal. In contrast, her successor and heir to the throne doesn’t exactly come out smelling like an English rose.

Prince Charles is the queen’s eldest son and heir and now one royal expert is coming clean to Express about how his mom is making him look bad.

Queen Elizabeth Is A Popular Monarch

According to royal expert Jonathan Sacerdoti, “It’s interesting because I’ve been keeping an eye occasionally on the surveys that YouGov do about the popularity of the royals, they have a sort of league table of whose the most popular that shows them going up and down.”

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“On the one hand, that seems frivolous, on the other hand, it’s quite an interesting idea because Prince Charles suffers, in a way, under the immense popularity of his mother, the Queen.”

Prince Charles Has Made His Own Bed

Of course many royal fans would point out that Prince Charles has had a helping hand in his own bad PR. First there was the nonsense about cheating on his late wife Princess Diana. Then there was the egregious sin in many fans’ eyes when he married his fling, Camilla, who is now in line to be queen consort.

According to Sacerdoti, “I think that there is one way in which that is a slight problem for him and for the monarchy generally because she’s been there for so long, that there isn’t anyone who can remember anything other than Queen Elizabeth II in their lifetimes.”

That is a great understatement as Her Majesty will celebrate her Platinum Jubilee next year, marking 70 years on the throne. That is many lifetimes, actually!

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Will Prince Charles Make People Forget?

The royal expert went on to say of Her Majesty, “She’s widely thought of as a very responsible, solid, safe pair of hands, who has shown incredible leadership in a very difficult, and some would say an antiquated role.”

To that end Prince Charles has made noises about wanting to modernize the monarchy, and many think he already has by snubbing his own kin. He failed to pass on his late father’s Duke of Edinburgh title to his brother Edward who was said to have been promised the title after Philip’s death.

Perhaps Charles should be more worried about his own family’s opinion of him, as well as the public’s perception?

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