Rihanna shared a new series of promotional images for her Savage X Fenty lingerie brand this week, posing in a plunging floral lace teddy against a mock construction-site backdrop complete with traffic signs.

In the photos posted to Instagram, the singer and entrepreneur appears in a sheer Mod Poppy Lace Teddy, high heels and loose waves of dark hair. She leans near a “No Parking” sign and a large yellow “Curves Ahead” marker that features the outline of a woman’s figure. The setting includes roadblocks and other traffic props.

She captioned the post: “Even outside has rules @savagexfenty.”

The images highlight the brand’s latest release and continue Rihanna’s practice of starring in her own campaigns. Savage X Fenty also shared close-up shots of the same teddy. Fans responded with comments featuring heart and fire emojis.

The 38-year-old has maintained a steady pace of brand promotions in recent weeks. Earlier posts showed her in a black-and-white lace set with a garter belt, holding a red stop sign, and in a bubblegum-pink slip that emphasized her figure. Those images followed her return to more public visibility after the birth of her third child.

Rihanna and partner A$AP Rocky welcomed daughter Rocki in September 2025. The couple are also parents to sons RZA, 4, and Riot, 2. She kept the third pregnancy largely private until the Met Gala in May 2025, when she appeared with a visible baby bump. Roughly 10 months after Rocki’s arrival, the new campaign images present her in the same confident, body-forward style that has defined Savage X Fenty since its launch.

Savage X Fenty, founded by Rihanna, has built its identity around inclusive sizing, bold designs and a message of personal confidence. The brand regularly features Rihanna herself rather than relying solely on other models, a strategy that keeps the founder’s image closely tied to the product. Previous collections have included everything from everyday basics to more elaborate lace and mesh pieces. The current Mod Poppy Lace Teddy fits the brand’s pattern of combining sheer fabrics with structured details and playful marketing.

The construction-site concept leans into visual wordplay. The “Curves Ahead” sign directly references the campaign’s focus on the wearer’s silhouette, while the “Even outside has rules” caption ties the outdoor props back to the brand’s messaging. Rihanna has long used humor and directness in her social-media promotion, whether for music, beauty products or lingerie.

Public reaction to the latest drop followed familiar patterns for her posts. Followers praised the styling, the confidence on display and the continued visibility of a major celebrity founder modeling her own product. The campaign arrives amid broader industry attention on Rihanna’s business interests, which span music, Fenty Beauty and Savage X Fenty. She has repeatedly positioned the lingerie line as an extension of her personal aesthetic and values around body positivity and accessibility.

Rihanna’s approach to postpartum visibility has drawn notice in fashion and entertainment coverage. After each of her three children she has returned to campaign work that emphasizes the same unapologetic presentation of her figure. The latest images maintain that consistency while introducing a new thematic set and product.

Savage X Fenty continues to release seasonal and limited collections throughout the year. The Mod Poppy Lace Teddy joins recent drops that have included soft stretch lace in multiple colors and cuts. Pricing and availability details are typically listed on the brand’s website and through its membership program, which offers early access and discounts.

As a performer, Rihanna has largely stepped back from full-scale album cycles in recent years while expanding her commercial enterprises. The lingerie campaigns keep her cultural presence active between major music releases. Her Instagram account, with tens of millions of followers, remains one of the primary platforms for introducing new Savage X Fenty pieces directly to consumers.

The construction-themed shoot is the latest example of the brand’s willingness to stage elaborate concepts rather than simple studio portraits. Previous campaigns have used pool floats, studio lighting and other playful environments. The outdoor traffic-sign setting continues that inventive approach while keeping the focus on the product and the person wearing it.

Rihanna’s posts generated the expected volume of engagement, with users circulating the images and commenting on the styling and concept. The campaign reinforces the central role she continues to play as both founder and face of Savage X Fenty more than six years after the brand’s debut.

In the broader landscape of celebrity-backed fashion and beauty lines, Rihanna’s direct involvement remains distinctive. Few founders of comparable scale appear so consistently in their own advertising. The latest images extend that pattern, pairing a new product with a light-hearted visual concept and a short, characteristically direct caption.

The photos show Rihanna in the same confident register that has defined her public image for years—whether on stage, at red-carpet events or in brand campaigns. For Savage X Fenty, that continuity remains a core part of the marketing strategy.

Shares of KEI Industries rallied 6.77% to Rs 5,363.20 during Tuesday’s trading session after the company reported a robust performance for the first quarter of FY27, driven by strong demand in its wires and cables business, improved operating efficiency, and margin expansion.

The company posted a 40% year-on-year (YoY) growth in consolidated net profit, which increased to Rs 274 crore in Q1 FY27 from Rs 196 crore in the same quarter last year. The profit growth was supported by an improvement in profitability, with the profit after tax (PAT) margin expanding to 8.61% in Q1 FY27 from 7.56% in Q1 FY26.

KEI Industries reported a 23% YoY rise in revenue from operations, reaching Rs 3,185 crore in Q1 FY27 compared with Rs 2,590 crore in Q1 FY26. The company attributed the growth to broad-based demand across its wires and cables portfolio and balanced performance across business segments.

The company’s EBITDA increased 39.57% YoY during the quarter, supported by better operational efficiency and an improved product mix. As a result, the EBITDA margin expanded by around 155 basis points to 13.04% in Q1 FY27, compared with 11.49% in Q1 FY26.

The core Wires & Cables business continued to be the key growth engine, recording strong performance during the quarter.

Domestic Wires & Cables sales grew 29.31% YoY, supported by sustained demand and operational improvements.
Total Wires & Cables sales, including exports, stood at Rs 3,092 crore, contributing 97.08% of total revenue in Q1 FY27 compared with 95.96% in Q1 FY26.Dealer and distributor-led sales increased 41.98% YoY, contributing 59.09% of overall sales compared with 51.18% in the year-ago quarter.

The company’s active dealer network stood at 2,128 dealers as of June 30, 2026.

The Extra High Voltage (EHV) cable segment witnessed strong momentum, with sales rising to Rs 186 crore in Q1 FY27 from Rs 126 crore in Q1 FY26, marking a 47.74% YoY growth.

While export wires and cables sales declined 7.29% YoY during the quarter, the company expects overseas business to witness significant growth ahead, supported by a strong order book and improving demand in key international markets.

Revenue Break-up

KEI Industries’ Q1 FY27 revenue performance was largely driven by its core Wires & Cables segment, which contributed Rs 3,092 crore to the company’s total revenue during the quarter. The Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) business contributed Rs 43 crore, while the Stainless Steel (SS) Wires segment recorded revenue of Rs 53 crore.

Strong Order Book Provides Growth Visibility

The company’s pending order book stood at approximately Rs 4,292 crore, providing strong revenue visibility for upcoming quarters.

Technical Outlook: Stock Trades Above Key Moving Averages

From a technical perspective, KEI Industries shares are showing a mixed but stable setup. The 14-day Relative Strength Index (RSI) stood at 49.1, indicating the stock is neither in the overbought nor oversold zone. An RSI below 30 generally indicates oversold conditions, while a reading above 70 suggests overbought territory.

The stock is currently trading above all eight key Simple Moving Averages (SMAs), reflecting a bullish trend from a moving-average perspective.

Recent shareholding trends indicate continued institutional confidence in KEI Industries. Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) increased their stake slightly to 27.32% in the June 2026 quarter from 27.27% previously, while Mutual Fund holdings rose to 22.52% from 22.43% during the same period.

With strong quarterly earnings, healthy demand in the wires and cables segment, expanding margins, and a sizeable order pipeline, KEI Industries continues to attract investor attention following its strong Q1 FY27 performance.

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A prosecutor says alleged Bali Ha’i Cruises swindler Colin Beeck was trying to conceal his activities when he re-directed bank statements requested by his boss Dick Chandler.

Summing up the case against Mr Beeck in Perth Magistrates Court, prosecutor Kirsten Norton said Mr Beeck wanted to keep other people at Bali Ha’i Cruises in the dark for “as long as possible” when he had the statements emailed to himself.

She was referring to Mr Beeck’s actions in late July 2022 after Mr Chandler, the company’s managing director, had requested statements from National Australia Bank after discovering he was being paid less than his general manager.

Mr Beeck admitted that he requested the statements be sent to his email address in a move he described as an error of judgment. “I have never done it before and I have never done it again,” he said under cross examination last week.

The investigation into the salary discrepancies and the intrigue over the email diversions were not central to the allegations that Mr Beeck stole $676,279 as a servant of Bali Ha’i Cruises from March 2018 to July 2022.

But the investigation led to the breakdown to the 27-year working relationship between Mr Chandler and Mr Beeck.

They worked together in the two-person Subiaco headquarters of Bali Ha’i until the financial blow-up in July 2022.

They were close, and just how close could be central to the decision to be made by Magistrate Greg Penn about the guilt or innocence of Mr Beeck on 114 counts of stealing as a servant.

Mr Beeck claimed that the alleged payments were structured so that the other Bali Ha’i Cruises directors did not know about them.

Mr Beeck also claims Mr Chandler knew all about more than $670,000 of transfers to the general manager’s credit card and bank accounts between March 2018 and July 2022.

His defence is he had an honest belief he was entitled to the money and he lacked fraudulent inent.

The transfers were made from a Bali Ha’i Cruises everyday account that had received deposits from two other companies in the group, including the National Australia Bank account of the Indonesian operating company, Bali Hai Nusantara.

Mr Chandler has testified he knew little about modern banking technology and all payments from Bali Ha’i Cruises’ bank accounts were made by Mr Beeck,

Giving evidence last week, Mr Chandler said Mr Beeck was among the Bali Ha’i Cruises board members who agreed in March 2020 to cut their pay by 50 per cent so the company could survive the COVID downturn.

But Mr Chandler realised something was wrong when he saw a National Australia Bank account in July 2022 showing that Mr Beeck was being paid more than him.

Mr Chandler said he realised Mr Beeck had increased his pay to around 80 per cent of his regular salary. 

When he asked Mr Beeck why he had increased his salary, Mr Chandler claimed the general manager said: “Because I could.”

Mr Beeck testified he would never make such a comment.

He denied he was prevented by board rules from increasing his salary from the 50 per cent cut agreed in March 2020.

In her summing up, Ms Norton claimed that the 50 per cent wage cut was essential for the company’s survival .

She said Mr Beeck’s increasing his salary to 80 per cent of the original figure “behind the company’s back was petulant and arrogant”.

The prosecution tried to attack the credibility of Mr Beeck in its summing up, but the accused man’s lawyer Luca Margaretic said there were clear deficiencies in the police investigation.

Mr Margaretic said police had not independently analysed the two laptops used by Mr Beeck or attempted to reconstruct records from metadata. Instead they had relied on information provided by Bali Ha’i Cruises.

He said there was no effort to identify who had sent the money from the two accounts that were the sources of the money used for the allegedly fraudulent transfers. “Someone had to press send … it’s no small amount of money that was sent from Indonesia,” the defence barrister said.

Mr Chandler had testified he did know how to access the company’s electronic banking system, but Mr Margaretic said it was incongruous that the managing director would be so aloof from his own company’s finances.

Magistrate Penn adjourned his decision to November 20.

PHILADELPHIA — LeBron James stunned the basketball world last week when he announced he would leave the Los Angeles Lakers to sign with the Philadelphia 76ers for his 24th NBA season, a decision that immediately reignited one of the sport’s most persistent questions: can the 40-year-old superstar win one more championship before he calls it a career?

James confirmed the move on social media, describing it as his “last decision” after seriously weighing retirement following the end of his 23rd season. He will pair with Joel Embiid in Philadelphia’s frontcourt for the 2026-27 season, joining a roster that has been reshaped this offseason around All-Star guard Tyrese Maxey and newly acquired forward Jaylen Brown, who arrived via trade from the Boston Celtics.

A surprising landing spot

According to multiple reports, James narrowed his free-agency decision down to five teams before settling on Philadelphia, with the Cleveland Cavaliers, Miami Heat, Minnesota Timberwolves and Golden State Warriors among the other finalists. His agent has also indicated James would have joined the New York Knicks had they not already won a title, adding another layer of intrigue to a decision that reshuffled contender status across the Eastern Conference.

In explaining his choice, James struck an optimistic tone about Philadelphia’s championship potential. “I believe I can help make the Philadelphia 76ers a championship team and I am so excited to energize a new fan base and start this incredible journey one last time,” James wrote in his announcement.

Why the Sixers made sense

Philadelphia enters the season with a core built around three All-Star-caliber pieces in Embiid, Maxey and Brown, giving James more established teammates than he had during his final seasons in Los Angeles. Brown, an NBA champion with Boston in 2024, brings both scoring and playoff experience to a roster that has struggled in recent years with health issues surrounding Embiid, who has missed extended stretches of the past two seasons due to knee problems.

Brown’s arrival itself carried mixed emotions. Reflecting on the trade that sent him from Boston to Philadelphia, Brown said he was “excited and disappointed at the same time,” adding that he remains “big on respect, and actions speak louder than words.”

James’ arrival is expected to elevate Philadelphia’s national profile significantly. According to Front Office Sports media reporter Michael McCarthy, the Sixers are projected to receive the maximum 34 national television broadcasts this season, more than double the 14 games they were slated for before James signed, with the team also expected to feature prominently in marquee events such as opening week and the league’s Christmas Day slate.

The championship question

Whether James can deliver a title to Philadelphia remains far from certain. At 40 years old entering his 24th NBA season, an NBA record for career longevity, James will be tasked with adapting to a new system, a new set of teammates and, potentially, a diminished role compared to the primary offensive engine he has been for most of his career.

Embiid’s health remains perhaps the single biggest variable for Philadelphia’s championship hopes. The former MVP has been limited by knee issues in recent seasons, and any deep playoff run would likely require both James and Embiid to stay healthy through an 82-game regular season and a grueling postseason, something neither player has consistently managed in recent years.

The Eastern Conference also remains loaded with contenders. The Knicks enter the season as defending champions, while the Celtics, even after trading Brown, retain significant talent. James joining Philadelphia intensifies an already competitive conference, with the Sixers now viewed as a legitimate threat but far from a guaranteed favorite.

A league-wide ripple effect

James’ decision has already reshaped storylines across the NBA heading into the 2026-27 season. Teams he passed over, including Miami and Minnesota, have seen players respond publicly, with stars such as Bam Adebayo and Anthony Edwards reportedly making light of the decision. The Cavaliers, James’ former team on two separate occasions earlier in his career, have not issued a public response, while the Lakers, whom James informed directly of his departure, are expected to face him with extra motivation when the two teams meet during the season.

NBA commissioner Adam Silver, who had voiced frustration in mid-July over how long James was taking to make his decision, ultimately got the resolution he was looking for, along with the fresh storylines that come with one of the league’s most accomplished players changing teams late in his career.

Historical context

James enters the season as the NBA’s all-time leading scorer and a four-time champion, having won titles with the Miami Heat, Cleveland Cavaliers and Los Angeles Lakers. A championship with Philadelphia would give him a title with four different franchises, an unprecedented achievement in modern NBA history and one that would further cement his case as the greatest player of all time in the eyes of many analysts and fans.

Still, history suggests that championships become harder to secure as players age into their late 30s and 40s, even for a talent as durable as James. His physical conditioning has long been regarded as one of the most disciplined in professional sports, but the accumulated toll of nearly a quarter-century of high-level competition remains a significant factor working against him.

The 2026-27 NBA season is set to open in October, with Philadelphia’s revamped roster facing early scrutiny as James, Embiid, Maxey and Brown work to build chemistry under a compressed timeline. Whether the pairing translates into legitimate championship contention, or simply adds star power to a talented but unproven roster, will likely become clearer as the season progresses and the team faces the league’s top contenders, including the defending champion Knicks and a retooled Celtics squad still adjusting to life without Brown.

For now, the question of whether James will add one final championship to his résumé remains unanswered, dependent on health, chemistry and a Philadelphia roster that, on paper, gives him more talent around him than he has had in years, even as the Eastern Conference presents no shortage of obstacles standing in the way.

Puzzle fans looking to sort out Tuesday’s New York Times Connections grid have a mix of everyday objects, city landmarks and clever visual wordplay to untangle in puzzle #1150. Below are spoiler-free hints for anyone still working through today’s board, followed by the full confirmed solution for those ready to check their answers.

What is NYT Connections?

Connections is a daily word-association puzzle published by The New York Times, in which players are presented with a 4-by-4 grid of 16 seemingly unrelated words and asked to sort them into four hidden groups of four. Each group shares a common theme, ranging from straightforward categories to trickier wordplay-based connections. The puzzle, created in 2023 and overseen by the Times’ crossword editor, Wyna Liu, has become one of the paper’s most popular daily games alongside Wordle, Strands and the Mini Crossword.

Categories are typically color-coded by difficulty, running from the most straightforward grouping to the most conceptually challenging, with the trickiest category often relying on wordplay, double meanings or unexpected associations between words that appear to have nothing in common at first glance. Part of the puzzle’s appeal, and its difficulty, comes from the Times’ deliberate use of overlapping words designed to mislead players into grouping items incorrectly before the true categories become clear.

Hints for today’s puzzle

For players who want a nudge before jumping straight to the answers, here are some spoiler-light clues for each of today’s four categories:

• One category involves items that are long and cylindrical in shape.
• Another focuses on sights closely associated with New York City.
• A third groups together objects and instruments that share a common mechanical feature: pedals.
• The final and trickiest category ties together things that form a distinctive V shape.

If those hints aren’t quite enough, a few additional pointers: think of something you might chew on the sidewalk, a familiar city bird, an instrument played with the feet as well as the hands, and a hand gesture recognizable around the world.

Today’s Connections answers

For those ready to see the full solution, here is how puzzle #1150 breaks down for Tuesday, August 4, 2026:

Long Cylindrical Things: Cigarette, Foam Roller, Pool Noodle, Pretzel Rod

Iconic NYC Sights: Bodega, Pigeon, Subway Station, Taxi Cab

Things With Pedals: Piano, Sewing Machine, Swan Boat, Unicycle

V-Shaped Things: Angle Bracket, Chevron, Goose Formation, Peace Sign

The puzzle’s most challenging group is likely to be the V-Shaped Things category, which requires players to move beyond literal object categories and instead recognize a shared visual shape across items as varied as a hand gesture, a punctuation mark, a flying formation of geese and a chevron pattern. That kind of abstract, shape-based grouping is a hallmark of Connections’ hardest category on any given day, often tripping up players who initially try to sort those words by what they are rather than what they resemble.

The Things With Pedals category also carries a bit of a twist, linking together items that don’t obviously belong in the same group at first glance. A piano and a sewing machine share pedals used for different mechanical purposes, while a swan boat, the pedal-powered paddle boats found on lakes in parks, and a unicycle round out a category built around a shared physical feature rather than a shared purpose or setting.

Strategy for solving Connections

Players tackling Connections are often advised to start with the category they feel most confident about, typically the most literal or straightforward grouping, before moving on to trickier associations. Because the puzzle intentionally seeds decoy words designed to fit multiple categories, jumping to conclusions on category groupings can be costly, since an incorrect guess can quickly use up the limited number of mistakes allowed before the puzzle is considered unsolved for the day.

A common approach involves first identifying words that only seem to fit one obvious category, then working outward from there, saving the most ambiguous or abstract-seeming words for last. In today’s puzzle, several items could plausibly overlap between categories at first glance, for instance, a pretzel rod might initially seem more closely tied to a food-based group rather than a shape-based one, while a taxi cab could be mistaken for fitting a category built around modes of transportation rather than New York City sights specifically.

A companion puzzle: Connections Sports Edition

Alongside the main Connections puzzle, the Times also publishes a separate Connections: Sports Edition, developed in partnership with The Athletic, which challenges players to apply knowledge of baseball, basketball, football and hockey to a similarly structured grid. Tuesday’s sports edition, puzzle #680, tested players on categories built around team names, franchise history and sports terminology, offering a parallel challenge for fans of both word games and sports trivia.

Why Connections has become a daily habit

Since its debut, Connections has grown into one of the Times’ most widely played daily puzzles, prized for the way it rewards lateral thinking over rote vocabulary knowledge. Unlike Wordle, which tests spelling and letter placement, Connections leans on pattern recognition and cultural familiarity, often requiring players to reconsider their first instinct about a word’s meaning once a puzzle’s true structure starts to emerge.

The puzzle resets daily at midnight local time, with a new 16-word grid and four categories waiting for players each morning. For those who missed Tuesday’s puzzle or want to track their progress over time, the Times maintains an archive of past Connections puzzles, allowing solvers to catch up on previous days’ boards or revisit puzzles they weren’t able to finish.

With today’s #1150 solved, players can look ahead to Wednesday’s edition, #1151, which will bring an entirely new set of 16 words and four fresh categories to untangle.

Shares of Thangamayil Jewellery dipped another 5% to a lower circuit of Rs 4,723 on the BSE on Tuesday even as the company announced sales of Rs 344 crore in just the first three days of August amid Aadi Perukku, an auspicious festival in Tamil Nadu. With Tuesday’s decline, the stock is down 35% in six sessions.

In a regulatory filing on Monday, the jewellery retailer said it recorded sales revenue of Rs 344.16 crore during the August 1 to August 3, 2026 period, compared with Rs 156.75 crore in the corresponding period last year. This translates into a 119.55% year on year growth in sales over the three day period.

Thangamayil share selloff explained

Much of the negative sentiment comes from weak guidance following the first quarter release last month. Thangamayil Jewellery said it saw no visible improvement in sales during the first 28 days of the second quarter of FY27. The company attributed this to continued uncertainty around the war and customer expectations of a moderate decline in international gold prices, which led to further postponement of purchases.

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The company expects this deferred demand to return once the war and gold price situation improves. It remains hopeful of seeing a recovery in demand in the second half of FY27.

Thangamayil Jewellery reported same-store sales (SSS) growth of 44.4% for the three months ended June 30, 2026, compared with 72.3% growth on a quarter-on-quarter basis. The company said gold volumes were relatively lower during the quarter despite international gold prices being more benign compared with the previous quarter, when prices had remained elevated.
According to the company, the slowdown was primarily due to a steep increase in import duty from 6% to 15% from May 13, 2026, along with significant depreciation in the Indian rupee. These factors led customers to postpone purchases in anticipation of a future decline in gold prices in U.S. dollar terms.The uncertainty caused by the West Asia war also weighed on demand. The company said the resulting slowdown in gold purchases by expatriates, driven by lower inward remittances in the areas where it operates, further contributed to the sluggish offtake on a quarter-on-quarter basis.

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Thangamyil Q1 results

The retailer reported a net profit of Rs 85 crore for the first quarter of FY27, marking an 86% growth from Rs 45.7 crore posted in the same period last year.

The company’s revenue from operations jumped 71.2% in the June quarter to Rs 2,666.4 crore from Rs 1,558 crore posted in the corresponding quarter of the previous financial year.

Further, EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization) rose 66.2% to Rs 144.6 crore from Rs 87 crore. Margins for the quarter under review stood at 5.4%, compared with 5.6% in the corresponding period last year.

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LONDON — Prince William has once again been named Britain’s most popular royal, edging out his wife, Catherine, Princess of Wales, in the latest YouGov favourability tracker, extending a pattern that has now held for more than a year.

The survey, conducted among 2,063 adults in Great Britain on July 21-22, found that 76% of respondents held a positive view of the Prince of Wales, compared with 74% for Catherine. The two-point gap, while narrow, marks the continuation of a shift that began in August 2025, when William first overtook his wife in the rankings after she had spent years as the public’s clear favorite. Catherine last held the top spot in February 2025.

A narrow but consistent gap

Despite trailing her husband in overall favorability, Catherine continues to hold an edge in a different measure: how few people view her unfavorably. Only 13% of respondents expressed a negative opinion of the princess, compared with 16% who viewed William unfavorably, suggesting that while slightly fewer Britons rate her as a clear favorite, she also draws less outright criticism than her husband.

That dynamic has defined the Waleses’ standing in recent YouGov trackers, with both figures consistently drawing support from roughly three-quarters of the British public, a level that has remained largely unchanged over the past several years even as the broader royal family has weathered periods of turbulence.

Where the rest of the family stands

Princess Anne, long regarded as one of the most consistently well-regarded working royals, came in third with a 70% favorability rating, according to the July tracker. King Charles III followed in fourth place, with 62% of respondents holding a positive view of the monarch, against 31% who viewed him unfavorably. YouGov noted that the king’s rating has remained relatively steady, with 59% to 63% of Britons expressing a favorable opinion of him over the past two years.

Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, rounded out the upper tier of the rankings, with 53% and 51% favorability respectively. Queen Camilla registered a more mixed standing, with 43% of respondents viewing her positively and 44% holding a negative opinion, according to the tracker.

Harry and Meghan remain unpopular, though Harry’s numbers tick up

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, continue to rank among the least popular working or formerly working members of the royal family, though the polling suggests a modest shift in sentiment toward Harry over the past year. According to YouGov, 33% of Britons now hold a favorable view of Harry, up six points since May 2025, while the share holding a negative opinion of him has fallen five points over the same period to 58%.

Meghan’s standing has shown less movement. Just 22% of respondents said they viewed the Duchess of Sussex positively, compared with 65% who held an unfavorable opinion of her, figures that have remained largely consistent across recent waves of YouGov’s tracker.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who lost his Prince and Duke of York titles amid ongoing scandal, remains the most unpopular member of the extended royal family by a wide margin, with public backing in the low single digits in recent surveys. The fallout from his case has also weighed on his daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, both of whom now register more unfavorable than favorable opinions among the public for the first time in recent tracking.

A stable picture for the monarchy overall

Beyond individual rankings, YouGov’s broader tracking shows that support for the monarchy as an institution has remained fairly steady throughout Charles’ reign, with close to two-thirds of Britons continuing to favor keeping the royal family, a figure that has shown little movement despite the various controversies that have touched different branches of the family in recent years.

The consistency in William and Catherine’s numbers stands in contrast to the more volatile ratings tracked for other senior royals. Charles’ favorability, while currently at the higher end of its range, has swung more noticeably over the course of his reign than that of his son and daughter-in-law, reflecting the way public sentiment toward the monarch has shifted alongside major moments such as his cancer diagnosis and subsequent treatment.

A generational divide

YouGov’s polling has also highlighted a consistent generational split in attitudes toward Harry and Meghan, with younger Britons expressing significantly more favorable views of the couple than older generations. In earlier waves of the tracker, YouGov found that only 19% of Britons over 65 held a positive view of Harry, compared with 35% of those aged 18 to 24, while just 10% of the oldest respondents viewed Meghan favorably against 31% of the youngest age group.

No similarly pronounced generational divide has emerged in attitudes toward William and Catherine, whose favorability has remained comparatively high and stable across most age brackets, according to YouGov’s tracking data.

What the numbers suggest going forward

The latest results reinforce a picture that has held steady since William first passed his wife in the rankings nearly a year ago: the Prince and Princess of Wales remain, by a wide margin, the most consistently popular working members of the royal family, even as sentiment toward other figures — including the king, Harry and Meghan — continues to shift with each new wave of polling.

YouGov conducts its royal favourability tracker on a regular basis, typically surveying more than 2,000 adults in Great Britain, and the rankings have become a closely watched barometer of public sentiment toward individual royals as the family navigates a period that has included Charles’ health treatment, William and Catherine’s expanded public roles, and the continued fallout from Harry and Meghan’s departure from official royal duties in 2020.