This is how #BBCNews announced the death of #QueenElizabethII to BBC Television channels
A minute earlier #BBCNewsChannel made the first announcement
* πΈ Note the 2 women on the background to the right of @thehuwedwards who get told off for taking photographs #QueenElizabeth
This was the very first, slightly less formal, announcement of the death of #QueenElizabethII on #BBCNews
This wasn't marred by people taking photographs in the background as above (due to the broadcast delay they wouldn't have known it was happening) #QueenElizabeth
Here's how @CNN announced the death of #QueenElizabeth. This is quite dramatic, the reporter you can tell was quite shocked.
Here's how #GBNews tried to announce the death of #QueenElizabeth.
Inevitably they had several technical issues and actually managed to miss the bit where they said she had passed.
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"I don't think anybody has real style or class any more. Everyone's got old and fat"
She described herself "always vain.. always a poodle, only a poodle! That, and 3 strands of pearls! Together they are absolutely essential things in life" #AVeryBritishScandal
Photo:Allan Warren
In 1943 the Duchess had a fall down an elevator shaft.
After recovery friends noted that not only had she lost all sense of taste and smell due to nerve damage, she also had become sexually voracious. She once reportedly said, βGo to bed early and often.β #AVeryBritishScandal