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Buckingham Palace gathering spurs the Sun to wrongly publish Prince Philip death story

on May 4, 2017 | 0 comments

By John McCarthy

The Queen has called an all staff meeting in Buckingham Palace and across her residences today (4 May), sparking rumours that led to the Sun publishing a story wrongly claiming that Prince Phillip had passed away at the age of 95.

The newspaper rolled out a holding piece headlined ‘Prince Philip dead at 95, how did the Duke of Edinburgh die, etc etc’ hours after the announcement as speculation of the prince’s health began to circulate on social media.

The Sun accidentally published a (wrong) “Prince Philip has died” story; swiftly tweaked to “Who is Prince Read full story ›

Source: The Drum