A new poll has revealed the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s popularity in the United States has dramatically plummeted following the release of Spare.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s popularity took a major nosedive in the United States following the release of the Duke of Sussex’s explosive tell-all memoir – despite Spare becoming the fastest-selling non-fiction book of all time on the day of its release.
The couple, who were once tremendously popular in the US, have sunk in the polls after Harry launched a fresh attack on the royal family and revealed a range of intimate details in his explosive book.
Five days before it hit the shelves a Newsweek poll of 2,000 US voters revealed the father-of-two had a favorability rating of +38.
However, six days after his bombshell book dropped, a Redfield and Wilton of the same number of participants showed a massive drop in his approval rating to -7.
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Meghan’s popularity in the United States was also rocked by her husband’s controversial memoir, falling by 26 points in the same time to an approval rating of -13.
In the best-selling book Harry not only lifts the lid on what life is really like within the monarchy, but he also claims that his brother Prince William physically attacked him in a heated altercation.
His memoir has also landed him in hot water after he claimed to have killed 25 people while on duty in Afghanistan, with the Iran Foreign Ministry officially accusing the Duke of Sussex of “war crimes”.
Iranian officials took to Twitter to slam the 38-year-old amid an escalating diplomatic dispute on human rights following the execution of duel-Iranian British national Alireza Akbari.
“The British regime, whose royal family member, sees the killing of 25 innocent people as removal of chess pieces and has no regrets over the issue, and those who turn a blind eye to this war crime, are in no position to preach others on human rights,” the Iran Foreign Ministry tweeted on Tuesday.
In Spare the Duke recounts his tours of Afghanistan as an air controller and gunner in Apache attack helicopters.
According to excerpts from the book, the Duke of Sussex said he did not view the fighters as “people” but instead as “chess pieces” who needed to be eliminated.
“While in the heat and fog of combat, I didn’t think of those twenty-five as people. You can’t kill people if you think of them as people,” he wrote.
“They were chess pieces removed from the board, bad people eliminated before they could kill good people.
“It was not something that filled me with satisfaction, but I was not ashamed either.”
The Duke went on to add that most soldiers aren’t certain exactly how many people they have killed because “under battle conditions, you often fire indiscriminately”.
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