# Britons; what are you expecting when Charles becomes King? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 2, 2022, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britons-what-are-you-expecting-when-charles-becomes-king/957061 "2022-01-02T02:19:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 308
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britons-what-are-you-expecting-when-charles-becomes-king/957061/308 "2022-06-27T02:03:12Z")
You seem to have a personal animus against Prince Charles, which is fine, I’m just saying he has largely rehabilitated his image in Britain, as evidence by years of generally above water favorable/unfavorable opinion polling. Someone who dislikes Charles will, of course, focus quite a bit on all negative press about him. But my point was simply that the public at large has largely turned favorable towards him for a good period of time now, I don’t believe he has had lower favorable than unfavorable in over 20 years (he has fallen below 50% favorable off and on, but the unfavorable number generally didn’t top it.) I generally don’t care to defend Charles or anything he does, he has little relevance to my life–I am simply stating the reality that he has a generally favorable public opinion and has largely rehabilitated his image from its lows. There are individuals who will always view him unfavorably–The Guardian for example is a Republican paper and famously has been for years. There are also people who have viewed QE2 unfavorably her entire reign (because some people are just anti-monarchy–which, BTW, I’m very much against monarchies and am glad we don’t have one here–so more power to them.) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britons-what-are-you-expecting-when-charles-becomes-king/957061)._