So it was announced, early I suspect, that Kate and William are expecting their first baby. I say early, I think she’s only something like 13 weeks gone but went into hospital with acute morning sickness, apparently a strain of morning sickness implies she might be expecting twins! So you can well imagine the fuss the press are making, but it’s nice and they’re taking it in their stride. However…
Some Aussie DJs phoned the hospital pretending to be the Queen and Prince Charles and were actually put through to the ward and spoke to one of the nurses and she gave out various details thinking it was genuinely them! I don’t think the details were particularly sensitive, I haven’t listened to the recording but that was that and a pretty harmless practical joke was played out…not so harmless though…
Two days after the prank call (and I must stress there was no uproar or disciplinary action that we’re aware of) the nurse who took the call was found dead, an apparent suicide.
Can you imagine how fucked up that is???
As you can imagine, Twitter went into meltdown, journalists and all sorts got into a lather lambasting the DJs and they’ve gone into hiding. It’s calmed down a bit now, this is being written a couple of days later but I can’t help feel for all concerned.
The DJs were just simply carrying out nothing more harmful than an April Fools joke, but the person it was played on was clearly more fragile than they could possibly have expected and it backfired in a devastatingly tragic manner. I can’t see how anything can come of this in terms of punishing the DJs, it will be interesting to see what action if any does occur.
All very sad in what should be a truly celebratory time for the Windsors!
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