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Rumours - how are they handled?

Editorial decisions or higher up. (April 2005)

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MA
Marcus Founding member
There are always wild rumors concerning members of the Royal Family. The Queen Mother was said to have weeks to live at various points throughout the nineties with all kinds of terminal diseases attributed to her. Anyone remember the TV Forum thread telling us all to watch the news channels for news of her death, about a year before she actually died.

I guess it will be the same with the Queen now.
UB
Uncle Bruce
marksi posted:
Uncle Bruce posted:
cat posted:
It's the Queen.

And it's probably ****, like most of Popbitch.

EDIT: Just to expand. The theory being that Chaz and Camilla had their marriage rushed through (3 decades is hardly a rush) so that they were ready to take on the throne, as the Queen has a terminal illness and is dying.

And again, probably ****.


Sounds it to me. She didn't look in when she was in Bristol a few weeks ago!!

Mind you (not that I'm adding to this rumour mill), didn't she have a problem with skin cancer a while back?


No THAT rumour referred to Prince Philip.


I'm sure she had some suspicious lumps removed from near her eye - no rumour here.
MA
marksi
During a clear out of the old analogue suite I found a memo dated May 1980 which said suggested that "everyone should be on their guard over the weekend as concerns have once again been raised over the health of the Queen Mother".

As we now know, she carried on happily for another 22 years.

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