Morning Distribution for Friday, May 5, 2023

A [FiveThirtyEight]( email [Morning Distribution]( Friday, May 5, 2023 Your daily briefing from FiveThirtyEight --------------------------------------------------------------- The Morning Story [PollaPalooza_5_5_23_4x3_v01_DG]( [Who’s Excited For The Coronation Of King Charles?]( By [Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux]( [Tomorrow is Coronation Day in England]( — a special day when people around the world can take a breath and contemplate essential questions like: - How many [limited-edition pies]( can one celebration reasonably have? - What does it mean for the future of polite society if [Kate Middleton shows up]( in a floral headpiece instead of a tiara? - [Which is the smoother ride]( the Gold State Coach or the Diamond Jubilee State Coach? (Hint: One of them has air conditioning.) - Will the [Stone of Destiny]( give [its traditional groan]( when King Charles III sits on the throne? (I’m sorry, you have to click to find out.) Which is to say, it’s a spectacle. A spectacle loaded with nostalgia and warm patriotic feelings for some — and for others, a reminder of the monarchy’s expensive and scandal-ridden past. As King Charles officially ascends to the throne, polling shows that while there are still plenty of people around the world who have a soft spot for the royal family’s pomp and circumstance, they tend to be older; younger people (and nonwhite people) are more skeptical about the British monarchy’s utility in the modern world. King Charles’s most obvious problem is that he is far from the public’s favorite royal — at home or abroad. [A poll of American adults]( conducted by YouGov from April 29 to May 2 found that while he’s not as unpopular as as some other family members — the highest unfavorability rating belongs to Prince Andrew, King Charles’s younger brother, who was [stripped of his military honors and “royal patronages”]( after a woman accused him of raping her when she was a teenager — it’s safe to say that relatively few Americans have a soft spot for him. In fact, slightly more Americans have an unfavorable view of King Charles (40 percent) than a favorable view (39 percent), and only 31 percent of Americans think King Charles should have succeeded Queen Elizabeth II. (For context: 24 percent say his son, Prince William, should have succeeded Queen Elizabeth, 15 percent say no one should have succeeded Queen Elizabeth, and 30 percent said they don’t know.) [Read more]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Weekly Listen [Play]( [Politics Podcast: The Next American Migration]( [FiveThirtyEight] [View in browser]( [ABC News]( [Unsubscribe]( Our mailing address: FiveThirtyEight, 47 West 66th Street, New York, NY 10023.