Stockholm  - Despite some public grumbling about who should foot the bill for Swedish Crown Princess Victoria's pending wedding, the monarchy remains popular in Sweden, a poll said Monday.

Three out of four Swedes support the monarchy and want to see Victoria, 31, become queen, the poll commissioned by Stockholm daily Dagens Nyheter said.

In all, 74 per cent of the 1,025 people polled wanted to keep the monarchy, 19 per cent wanted to do away with it while the remaining 7 per cent were undecided.

"This survey confirms that a large majority of Swedes support the monarchy in its current form," analyst Nicklas Kallebring of polling institute Synovate said.

The survey was conducted February 25 to March 3.

Sweden is a constitutional monarchy where the monarch is head of state, but has little formal powers.

Among the current seven parties in parliament, only the opposition Left Party had a majority - 55 per cent - in favour of scrapping the monarchy.

The palace said the wedding between the crown princess and Daniel Westling was due in the early summer of 2010.

Meanwhile, debate continued on who should foot the bill for the 2010 wedding. Several designated groups opposing public funding of the event have appeared on the social networking site Facebook including the group "Refuse to pay Victoria's wedding." (dpa)