The British queen's diamond jubilee celebrations is drawing near and the joy of it gets further enhanced by a new Guardian/ICM poll that showed that the queen still enjoys a considerable level of popularity amongst her subjects. A mere 22 percent of respondents said that Britain would be better off without the monarchy, as against an overwhelming majority of 69 percent who said the country would be worse off. The crushing 47 point royalist margin is the largest chalked up on any of the 12 occasions since 1997 on which ICM has previously asked the identical question.
Pro-royal feeling is spread remarkably equally among the social classes and across the regions of England and Wales. It is less marked in Scotland - where 36 percent said the country would be better off without the and exWindsors - but even there a solid 50 percent felt the opposite way. Support is stronger among the older, and especially among Conservative voters, in whose ranks it reached 82 percent.
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