Kate Middleton surpassed husband Prince William and is now the most popular royal in the United Kingdom following her unexpected cancer announcement on March 22.
A new British YouGov poll — taken between February and April — shows that at the start of February, the Prince of Wales led the rest of the royals as the most favored member of the family, with 77%, followed by the Princess of Wales with 74%.
However, those numbers switched by the start of April after Middleton’s prerecorded video message to the world announcing she’s battling cancer discovered after she underwent “major abdominal surgery” in January. Princess Kate now leads the pack with 76%, followed by her royal husband with 73%, the poll showed. Princess Anne gets the title of third most favored royal with 71%, beating out King Charles III, who scored 63%, the poll noted.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are mentioned much further down the poll as some of the least favored royals, with the Duke of Sus𝓈ℯ𝓍 getting 31% favorability, beating out his wife, the Duchess of Sus𝓈ℯ𝓍, with only 26% of the vote. The two did manage to beat out scandal-ridden Prince Andrew, who only got a favorability of 6% from those polled in the nation.
It is unclear from the information provided how many people were polled for the survey.