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Terrible day BBC journalist wrongly declared Queen was dead and sparked Twitter meltdown
BBC was once forced to apologise for sparking an online storm on Twitter that the Queen had died. Rogue tweets were sent out during a corporation dress rehearsal for reporting the death of the Monarch back in 2015.One tweet stated: “Queen Elizabrth [sic] has died.”Buckingham Palace was even forced to issue a statement to reassure the public that the Queen was alive and in good health.The shocking incident occurred during a dress rehearsal for broadcasting the Queen's obituary which BBC bosses had allegedly asked staff to keep off social media.