People’s opinions on the royal family one year after the passing of HM Queen Elizabeth II

We have send camera teams out across the country to gather people’s opinions.

Transcript

00:00 Well, fine. Well, my starting point is to say I think King Charles is doing OK. I've

00:06 got one serious issue with him, and that is that he's welcomed his brother Andrew back

00:10 into the fold. I think cutting him permanently adrift would have been the right thing to

00:15 do. As far as Harry is concerned, very sad, very pitiful really. He's obviously got major

00:23 issues. He's behaved in an unforgivable way, but I suspect that he's done so under the

00:30 influence of others. I always supported the Queen. I thought she was wonderful, and nobody's

00:35 going to ever fill her shoes really. I think King Charles is doing OK up to now, but time

00:42 will tell. But as for Harry, I just think it's a family affair and they need to sort

00:51 it out between themselves. I mean, it's what happens in all families, and we all have problems,

00:57 don't we? Relationship problems. Well, I'm not really a royalist, but I do feel we're

01:04 better with one royal family than we are without one, and I did think the Queen did a good

01:11 job. Charles, well, he's broke every rule in the book, hasn't he? So what can you say

01:17 about that? I feel as though they dumped Diana, you know, a terrible injustice, and I didn't

01:23 like it. I'm sorry, but I don't dislike him, but I was all for the Queen. I'm sorry with

01:30 those two. I just feel as though that girl was so crazy. Obviously, he was the natural

01:38 choice because he was the eldest son. Personally, I don't believe in any of that. I'm not a

01:45 fan of that. I have nothing against them, but it just doesn't sit well with me, especially

01:49 in this day and age. It's a shame this happened, but it's true in life, and I hope the new

01:56 king gives us opportunities to have a good life in this country. I think it's been alright.

02:04 Yeah. Don't really stay up to cause with it, but it's okay. Yeah. It's only ridiculous

02:12 if you don't really care about the royal family. If you're into that sort of thing, I'm sure

02:16 like, oh my God, the whole world does stuff for you, but certainly up here and back around

02:19 from a lot of people don't care. So the fact that I know a lot of people, I'm a musician,

02:24 and a lot of people lost gigs that weekend, that time, because everyone's like, "Oh, we're

02:27 doing nothing," and it's like hundreds of thousands of pounds of work lost because somebody

02:33 died down the road sort of thing, you know? So that was a bit of a shame. Obviously, yeah,

02:37 I mean, obviously, sadly, anyone dies, I'm not saying that, and she obviously, she was

02:41 the queen for a long time, but wouldn't really be my area of interest.

02:45 But I think Charles has started well. He's got some gravitas to him. He comes across

02:51 as being warm and concerned. So I think he's carried on the tradition very well. Extremely

02:57 difficult task to replace the queen, you know, monarch for over 70 years, and I think he's

03:03 made a good start.