Feb. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Prince William should become king of the U.K. on the death of Queen Elizabeth II instead of his father Prince Charles, according to a poll conducted by YouGov for the Daily Telegraph newspaper.

Prince Charles's office yesterday said that he will on April 8 marry Camilla Parker Bowles, with whom he committed adultery during his first marriage to William's mother, Diana, Princess of Wales.

While 65 percent of 1,313 people aged 18 or more questioned yesterday by the pollster said Charles should marry Camilla, more people chose William, 22, than Charles, 56, when asked who should be the country's next monarch, the first time that has happened, according to the Telegraph.

The online poll showed that 41 percent said William should succeed Elizabeth, compared with 37 percent who chose Charles, according to results published on the YouGov Web site. Nineteen percent said there should be no monarch. The pollster gave no margin of error. A Gallup poll in 1998 showed 48 percent chose Charles and 22 percent preferred William, the Telegraph said.

As king, Charles will also be the supreme governor of the Church of England. The church in February 2003 passed a motion to allow divorced people to remarry in church in ``exceptional circumstances.'' Charles and Camilla, who is also divorced, will marry in a civil ceremony at Windsor Castle, west of London. Their marriage will then be blessed by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, in a separate service.

A total of 49 percent of those polled thought Charles shouldn't be the formal head of the Church of England on becoming king, compared with 37 percent who thought he should.

Camilla's Title

Charles's office said Camilla won't be called queen when Charles accedes to the throne; rather she will be known as the princess consort. Forty percent agreed with that choice of title, while nearly half of those polled said she shouldn't have any title at all. Only seven percent said she should be queen.

Charles, met Parker Bowles, 57, at a polo match in 1970. He married Diana in July 1981 and had two sons, princes William and Harry. Diana died in a car crash in Paris in August 1997, a year after divorcing Charles. Camilla divorced her husband, Andrew Parker Bowles, in 1995.

Elizabeth II took over the throne after her father George VI died in 1952. Charles since then has been heir to the throne, and William is next in the line of succession.

-- Editor: Torday

To contact the reporters on this story: Alex Morales in London at amorales2@bloomberg.net; Robert Hutton in London at (44) rhutton1@bloomberg.net

Last Updated: February 11, 2005 08:13 EST