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:
Although I suspect few readers’ hearts will bleed for them, it’s been a bad week for Russian elites. There has been a spate of real or apparent suicides and the arrest of a gold magnate as he prepared to leave the country. On Friday, Andrei Badalov, vice president of Transneft, Russia’s largest state-controlled pipeline transport
Khawaja has now deleted her tweets:
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