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Wills, Kate and the Queen provide more moral leadership than the Archbishop of Canterbury, poll finds
The poll surveyed 2,109 adults who chose from a list of public figures
At least 34 per cent chose the Queen as providing strong moral leadership
Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai landed 19 per cent of the vote
Nigel Farage, of Ukip, got a respectable 39 per cent of the vote
By Belinda Robinson for MAIL Online
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
December 28, 2014
The Queen and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been voted as the public figures who provide Britons with 'moral leadership' according to a poll.
The findings released in a YouGov survey suggested that Britons looked towards the actions of the Royal family ahead of church leaders like the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.
The poll surveyed 2,109 adults and asked respondents to choose three or four names from a list of public personalities who they believed showed strong moral leadership.
At least 34 per cent chose the Queen and she was followed by her grandson Prince William, and his wife Kate who snagged 30 per cent of the vote.
It's a far cry from the scandals which dogged the Royals in the 1990s when a series of divorces and the death of Princess Diana threatened to eclipse the monarchy.
The Royals, however, were closely followed by Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, who gained international notoriety when she was shot by the Taliban for going to school.
She received 19 per cent of the vote. And was recently honoured when she became the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, at a ceremony in Oslo on December 10.
US actress and singer Queen Latifah (C), singer of US band Aerosmith Steven Tyler (R) attend the Nobel Peace Prize awarding ceremony at the City Hall in Oslo on December 10, 2014. The 17-year-old Pakistani girls' education activist Malala Yousafzai known as Malala shares the 2014 peace prize with the Indian campaigner Kailash Satyarthi, 60, who has fought for 35 years to free thousands of children from virtual slave labour.
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