Given that the Queen looked in such good health last week during her speech, Mr S was surprised to hear ‘breaking’ news that she was being treated in hospital this morning.
The BBC journalist Ahmen Khawaja took to Twitter to tell her followers exactly that. However, Buckingham Palace has since confirmed that the Queen was in hospital, but just for her ‘annual medical check-up’.
Khawaja has now deleted her tweets:
All very curious indeed. Mr S is just pleased to hear the Queen is ok, despite the BBC’s best efforts.
Update: The BBC have now offered their own explanation, which seems to be at odds with the one given by Khawaja. They say the error occurred as they were rehearsing what they should do if the Queen were to die:
If the Royal Family had hoped the punishment meted out to ‘the Banned Old Duke of York’ would suffice in the court of public opinion, they would now be disappointed. Since Friday’s revelations that Prince Andrew would ‘no longer use’ his dukedom or other honours following the stream of scandals about his friendship with paedophile
Khawaja has now deleted her tweets:
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