
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
The wonderful thing is that someone, somewhere, has already been doing a lot of planning in this kind of area. Several people, in fact. No doubt the newspapers have already been round and collected the little histories of people who were born on the same day as the Queen. No doubt someone in the archives at ITN got a call on Saturday morning telling them they should go over their "Life Of Queen" emergency VT package and check whether it needed updating.This will be the ultimate no-news news event. If you thought it was boring watching Sky News' man outside the hospital speculate pointlessly over what Her Majesty may or may not have eaten; if you thought it was slightly amusing that the Guardian would instruct someone to write an FAQ on "What Is Gastroenteritis", well then you ain't seen nothing yet.As the sheer demand for copy explodes, the papers will have to cover every angle imaginable. Three days after death, the Sun will be resorting to timelining the hour-by-hour process of bodily decomposition that the Queen is going through:2PM: The body is now stiffening. The bowels have been most likely been evacuated. Her Majesty has roughly the texture of a pine wall unit covered in a tablecloth.
6PM: Putrefying gases are leading to small ruptures and explosions in the abdomen.Over on page 84 of their Queen Tribute Souvenir Edition (Part Three), the Daily Mail will wonder aloud which one will be next to die, in “The Seven Royals Who Could Be Next To Go”. It includes Kate:
Advertisement
