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The respect for the Royal Family in the hearts of British citizens has fallen sharply to below 50 per cent ever since Princess Dianas death in a car crash in a Paris underpass on 31August 1997, according to a new poll.
London, Aug. 31 : The respect for the Royal Family in the hearts of British citizens has fallen sharply to below 50 per cent ever since Princess Diana's death in a car crash in a Paris underpass on 31August 1997, according to a new poll.
The YouGov poll reveals that the respect for the Royal Family has faltered from 64 per cent to 49 per cent.
During the poll, 48 per cent of people said that they did not believe that the Royal Family had changed for the better as a result of the way the princess had lived and died.
While only six per cent of the study subjects reported having a change in their opinion of the Royal Family for the better, 25 per cent said it had declined over the past decade.
Eighty-two per cent of the people surveyed said that Diana had a "remarkable ability" to connect. A further 80 per cent thought that "she genuinely cared about people who were ill, disabled or disadvantaged in some way."
The poll's results are expected to cause unease at Buckingham Palace and at Clarence House, which has been criticised for failing to make any contingency plans for well-wishers expected to come to London for today's memorial service to mark 10 years since the princess's death.
"The monarchy will look carefully at these figures because, as an institution, it cannot afford to be complacent. It has adapted in the past, it will continue to adapt, but it cannot move ahead of public opinion otherwise it would appear divisive," the Telegraph quoted Vernon Bogdanor, the constitutionalist who is Professor of Government at Oxford University, as saying.
"There was a feeling, which I do not share, that the Queen should have left Balmoral sooner. But she had decided to stay to look after her grandchildren. I think she was right. These are generational issues," Professor Bogdanor added.
He, however, believes that the Royal Family will once again emerge stronger in the years ahead.
"The Royal Family, after never being out of the limelight in the 1990s, is now returning to its proper constitutional role. It is under much less strain than it was 10 years ago," he said.
The poll also revealed that despite a report by Lord Stevens, the former head of the Metropolitan Police, saying that Diana's chauffeur, Henri Paul, was three times over the drink-drive limit at the time of the fatal accident, 43 per cent of people thought her death was suspicious.
ANI
