Britain's Princess of Wales has become the UK’s most popular royal in the wake of her cancer diagnosis.
She jumped ahead of her husband the Prince of Wales, with 76 per cent of Britons quizzed saying they had a positive view of the future queen.
Her popularity rating has risen six percentage points since the start of the year during which time she delivered a video message to the nation announcing her chemotherapy treatment.
Heir to the throne William, with a 73 per cent positive rating in the YouGov poll, fell from the top position with a drop of one percentage point in contrast to January, but he still remains the second favourite royal.
Around a fifth of people (21 per cent) had a negative view of William, compared with 15 per cent for Kate.
Princess Anne, the sister of Britain's King Charles, was next with a 71 per cent positive rating, with Anne having the smallest negative rating at 13 per cent.
She was followed by Charles, who like Kate is also being treated for cancer.
Charles has a 63 per cent positive rating and 30 per cent negative, and is followed by his brother the Duke of Edinburgh with 54 per cent positive, and Britain's Queen Camilla, who has moved up two percentage points since January, with 50 per cent having a favourable view of Camilla.
Less than a third have a positive opinion of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, with 31 per cent for Harry and 26 per cent for Meghan.
The Duke of York, whose disastrous Newsnight interview was brought back into the spotlight this month with the release of the Netflix drama Scoop, remains the least popular member of the family of those included in the YouGov survey.
Some 6 per cent have a positive view of Andrew compared with 86 per cent a negative one.
Kate has stepped back from public life while she undergoes treatment for an undisclosed cancer, which was discovered in post-operative tests following her major abdominal surgery in January.
She opened up about her own diagnosis in an emotional video message released on March 22nd, after facing online conspiracy theories about her health and whereabouts.
Get well messages flooded in from around the world, and William and Kate were said to be “enormously touched” and “extremely moved” by the public’s warmth and support.
YouGov questioned 2,004 adults in Britain between April 2-3rd.
