Meghan Markle slips even on her home base with popularity nose dive
An expert warns Meghan Markle popularity is taking a hit so and that even her popularity on her home turf is in murky waters
May 16, 2025
Royal commentator Daniela Elser has just penned a piece that references the recent YouGov poll about Meghan Markle, and it seems her standing, even in the US, is not well.
The piece in question is for News.com.au and claims, “This polling is just the latest sign that she and other half Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, a newly-outed hat-fancier, are losing the battle of public opinion.”
“Sure, you say. These numbers, they only asked the Brits,” Ms Elser admitted.
From people who have “never liked Meghan,” the woman “who pitched up in their country with her ready supply of publicly dispensable hugs and leg-crossing guile and idea to install a yoga studio in the Royal Mews and never warmed to her.”
Because, “Americans aren’t exactly that crash hot on the 43-year-old entrepreneur either,” because according to The Times and a second YouGov poll of 1200 adults, 25% had negative views of the Duchess. For Prince Harry, in the US, it stands at 35%, and Prince William at 53%.
Overall, “the moral of the story: In both the UK and the US, where we have firm numbers, the results are hardly enough to bust out the good cashew and goji power balls in the Sussex HQ breakroom,” she added before signing off.
