Queen should abdicate if too ill to rule: UK poll
May 12, 2013  18:10
Queen Elizabeth II should step down from the British throne and allow her son Price Charles to become king if ill-health prevents her from performing her public duties, a survey has revealed here today.

While a majority 53 per cent of voters still believe the 87-year-old monarch should rule for life, only a minority of 43 per cent said she should continue even if she was too ill to continue. The Queen has been ruling since 1952. Significantly, a solid 48 per cent believed she should stand down in those circumstances and allow the throne to pass to her heirs, the Sunday Times survey conducted by YouGov this week found.

The latest figures mark a turnaround from March when 51 per cent thought she should carry on even if she were ill and other members of the royal family had to take over many of her duties.

The poll comes in the wake of an announcement earlier this week that the Queen's son and heir, Prince Charles, will take her place at this year's Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Sri Lanka '" a biennial conference she has not missed since 1973.
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