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30th December 2016
12:57pm GMT

People believed it was part of a media blackout, a theory that the British press were trying to cover the news up.Looks like a fake BBC account reporting that the queen is dead pic.twitter.com/kVKYucUv88
— Anthony Cheung (@AWMCheung) December 29, 2016
#mediablackout News that the Queen is dead is incorrect; it's Britain that died, partly because people believe anything they read. — Richard Littler (@richard_littler) December 30, 2016
If the Queen is dead u can bet ur arse it wasn't from hypothermia or starvation like a lot of other 90 yr olds this Christmas #mediablackout
— EllEffCee (@ImMeHooYou) December 30, 2016
I won't beleive the queen is dead until Trump tweets about it "nice lady, I'd give her a 5, but I have a bigger throne. Fact" #mediablackout — bippidee (@bippidee) December 30, 2016
A spokesperson for the Royal family confirmed that the Queen is alive and well.#mediablackout is amazing. 40 mins ago the whole hashtag thought the queen was dead, now because of one red tie on the BBC she's not
— ellie rice (@helloelli3) December 30, 2016
"The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh continue to recover from their heavy colds."