Britain's favourite royal revealed — and Sky still thinks we care

Sky News Australia · Saturday 18 April 2026

Britain's favourite royal revealed — and Sky still thinks we care

A British popularity poll about the royal family gets top billing on an Australian news site, thirty years after the Republic question stopped being a question anyone was seriously asking.

Sky News Australia filing copy about Britain's favourite royal is the journalistic equivalent of a bloke in Dubbo writing a letter to the editor about the Duchess of Kent's hat. The Republic debate died of boredom and these people are still doing the eulogy.

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