{"id":1395809,"date":"2026-05-21T13:02:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-king-is-dead-a-british-radio-station-accidentally-reported-the-monarchs-death\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T13:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:04:14","slug":"the-king-is-dead-a-british-radio-station-accidentally-reported-the-monarchs-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-king-is-dead-a-british-radio-station-accidentally-reported-the-monarchs-death\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The King is Dead&#8221;: A British radio station accidentally reported the monarch&#8217;s death."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"213\"><strong>British radio station <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Radio Caroline<\/span><\/span> apologized for erroneously reporting the death of King Charles. The station said the announcement was due to a computer error.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"215\" data-end=\"279\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">The Independent<\/span><\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/king-charles-death-radio-caroline-b2980386.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> this.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"281\" data-end=\"436\">Radio Caroline, which broadcasts throughout the south of England and the Midlands, announced the king&#8217;s death on May 19 and played the anthem &#8220;God Save the King.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"281\" data-end=\"436\">\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/king-charles-brother-detained-in-the-uk-what-is-known\/\">King Charles&#8217; brother detained in the UK: what is known<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"438\" data-end=\"590\">According to one listener, the broadcast suddenly ended, and the hosts announced the program was suspended. The broadcast was interrupted for approximately 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"592\" data-end=\"676\">The presenters later apologized for the confusion and explained that there had been a computer error.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"678\" data-end=\"1063\">&#8220;A computer error in our main studio on Tuesday afternoon (May 19) accidentally activated the &#8216;Death of a Monarch&#8217; procedure, which all UK stations keep on standby in the hope that it won&#8217;t be needed, and mistakenly announced that His Royal Highness <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">the King<\/span><\/span> had died,&#8221; the BBC wrote on social media.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1065\" data-end=\"1190\">He added that Radio Caroline had already broadcast Christmas messages from both the Queen and the King and hoped to continue to do so.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1192\" data-end=\"1314\">&#8220;We apologize to His Majesty the King and our listeners for any inconvenience,&#8221; the station&#8217;s director noted.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1316\" data-end=\"1510\">It was previously <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/velyka-brytaniia-poslabyla-sanktsii-proty-rf\/\">reported that <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">the UK<\/span><\/span> government had allowed the import of<\/a> diesel and aviation fuel produced from Russian crude oil, if it was refined in third countries.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1512\" data-end=\"1692\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ministr-oborony-brytanii-nakazav-terminovo-posylyty-ppo-ukrainy\/\">UK Defence Secretary <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">John Gillian<\/span><\/span> also ordered<\/a> the expedited delivery of air defence systems and counter-drone equipment to Ukraine following the massive Russian attacks.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1512\" data-end=\"1692\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British radio station Radio Caroline apologized for erroneously reporting the death of King Charles. The station said the announcement was due to a computer error. The Independent reports this. Radio Caroline, which broadcasts throughout the south of England and the Midlands, announced the king&#8217;s death on May 19 and played the anthem &#8220;God Save the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":1395803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1395809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1395811,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395809\/revisions\/1395811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1395803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}