The Royals With the Most Fake Followers - Including King Charles and Camilla

^{Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex arrive in a horse-drawn carriage at the, 'Trooping the Colour', in London on June 8, 2019. Photo: Wikimedia.}

With King Charles III's Coronation taking place this Saturday 6 May 2023 at Westminster Abbey in London, the world’s spotlight is yet again focused on the royals.

Keen to find out if the royals are as popular as their social media accounts suggest, BonusFinder.com located famous royal family members’ Instagram accounts from around the world, and used a fake follower analysis tool to determine which royals have the most fake followers on Instagram.

 

Highlights from the research: 

• King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla have the most fake followers of all British royals
• William and Kate have over DOUBLE the amount of fake followers compared to Harry and Meghan
• Harry and Meghan have the smallest percentage of fake followers on their Instagram account, at only 12.78%
• Lady Kitty Spencer has the highest percentage of fake followers at 28.45%

 

British Royals With the Most Fake Followers

 

As, arguably, the world’s most prominent royal family, the research took a deeper look into the British royal family’s followers ahead of the upcoming coronation.

The study found that the British royals with the most fake followers on Instagram are King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla. Just under 20% of the couples’ followers are fake, amounting to nearly 2.6 million fake followers.

Placed second are William and Kate on their shared account. The Prince and Princess of Wales have nearly 2.5 million fake followers - accounting for roughly 17% of their total following.

In third are Harry and Meghan, with one of the lowest percentages of fake followers of all royals around the world - accounting for roughly 13 in every 100 followers of their account.

 

Royal(s) name

Instagram handle

Total no. of followers

% of fake followers

Estimated no. of fake followers

#1

King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla

@theroyalfamily

12,900,000

19.98%

2,577,420

#2

William and Kate

@princeandprincessofwales

14,600,000

16.86%

2,461,560

#3

Harry and Meghan

@sussexroyal

9,500,000

12.78%

1,214,100

#4

Princess Eugenie

@princesseugenie

1,700,000

19.09%

324,530

#5

Lady Kitty Spencer

@kitty.spencer

737,400

28.45%

209,790

#6

Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York

@sarahferguson15

501,100

23.97%

120,114

#7

Lady Amelia Windsor

@amelwindsor

102,500

24.16%

24,764

#8

Sam Chatto

@samchatto

98,300

17.08%

16,790

 

World’s Royals With the Most Fake Followers

 

The study also reveals that the royal with the highest number of fake followers is Emirati Royal Prince Hamdan Bin Mohammed Al Maktoum. More than one in four of the Prince's 15.7 million followers are fake. 

Ranking in second is Queen Rania of Jordan with a total of 2.3 million fake followers, which accounts for 28% of her total instagram following. 

Whilst Camille Rose Gottlieb, daughter of Princess Stephanie of Monaco falls in eighth place, Camille has the highest percentage of fake followers of all the royals, with a whopping 3.5 in every 10 of the royal’s 96,000 followers being fake, resulting in a total of just over 33,000 fake followers.

 

Royal(s) name

Country

Instagram handle

% of fake followers

Estimated no. of fake followers

#1

Prince Hamdan Bin Mohammed Al Maktoum

Dubai

@faz3

27.30%

4,286,100

#2

Queen Rania of Jordan

Jordan

@queenrania

28.40%

2,353,050

#3

Crown Prince Hussein of Jordan

Jordan

@alhusseinjo

25.60%

997,230

#4

Lady Kitty Spencer

Britain

@kitty.spencer

28.50%

209,790

#5

Princess Haya of Jordan

Jordan

@hrhprincesshaya

30.60%

174,075

#6

Crown Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece

Greece

@mariechantal22

29.90%

69,983

#7

Princess Olympia of Greece

Greece

@olympiagreece

25.40%

63,779

#8

Camille Rose Gottlieb

Monaco

@camillerosegottlieb

34.70%

33,297

#9

Princess Tatiana Blatnik of Greece

Greece

@tatianablatnik

26.10%

20,301

#10

Princess Tessy Antony of Luxembourg

Luxembourg

@tessy_from_luxembourg

25.90%

8,035

At a time when many people are questioning the place of monarchs in modern society, it would seem from this study that some royals from around the world are going as far as forging their fame with fake social media followers.

All account information was gathered on the 20th of April 2023 and is correct as of then but subject to change. The figures are estimations based on each account’s total followers and data procured from Modash.io.