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"Almost 80% of people in England support a religious role for the Queen, a BBC poll suggests.
In a poll by Comres to coincide with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, 79% of respondents said she still had an important faith role.
Meanwhile, 73% said she should continue as supreme governor of the Church of England and keep the Defender of the Faith title first given to Henry VIII."
My own view is that he forefeited it as soon as he broke with the pope, though of course he still saw himself as a Catholic rather than a protestant. I don't know whether the Pope asked for the title back - I suppose that it was implicit in the excomunication which I suppose must have been imposed (heck of a lot I don't know about the matter ) though I go on to suppose that perhaps it was left in place for Mary I and whoever replaced Elizabeth I after the Armada hopefully succeeded.
What the Papal view is now I don't know - probably Thom R. can tell us. but unless the Vatican is leaving it in place until in God's Good time, England and Wales (Scotland having left the union by then) will have returned to monarchy under papal domination just as we never demanded Malta's George cross back even when it went Soviet -we just waited patiently for them to come to their senses again.
I heard that from a lot of folks when I lived in the UK back in the latter half of the 80s. I figured the sentiment has only grown since then.
From what i can gather (living here now) people are majoritively in favour of the royal family. People seem to be pleased that the Royal Family is moving into a more 'modern' era like the Royal families of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. A younger and more representative family is what we seem to be heading towards and people seem to approve of that.
What people here are less happy with is the subsidies that the Royal family receive from the tax payer.
75% of people of voting age want to keep a monarchy. See Link:
Why? I can perfectly understand the result. I would have voted in favour of it too even though I'm not religious. It's a cultural tradition and imo it's better to have a reliable, moderate head of the Church.
From what i can gather (living here now) people are majoritively in favour of the royal family. People seem to be pleased that the Royal Family is moving into a more 'modern' era like the Royal families of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. A younger and more representative family is what we seem to be heading towards and people seem to approve of that.
What people here are less happy with is the subsidies that the Royal family receive from the tax payer.
75% of people of voting age want to keep a monarchy. See Link:
Ah, thanks for the info. When I was living there it was in the days of "Gnarly Charlie" and "Randy Andy." The young Prince William and his bride may have changed peoples' perceptions.
From what i can gather (living here now) people are majoritively in favour of the royal family.
That's the problem with Joe Public. Give them crap TV full of 'reality' programmes about people making fools of themselves and a little plastic flag so that they can stand in the rain and wave it at 'royalty' in order to remind them just how inferior they are....and they're as happy as pigs in glabber!
Come the revolution mate!!
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) though I go on to suppose that perhaps it was left in place for Mary I and whoever replaced Elizabeth I after the Armada hopefully succeeded. 
but unless the Vatican is leaving it in place until in God's Good time, England and Wales (Scotland having left the union by then) will have returned to monarchy under papal domination just as we never demanded Malta's George cross back even when it went Soviet -we just waited patiently for them to come to their senses again.
