The hashtag #RoyalAnnouncement, about an alleged announcement in the making by the British royal family, became one of the most viral on the X network (formerly Twitter) in the United States on Monday.
Google searches in Mexico highlighted interest in the Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton, at the center of rumors about her health for weeks.
Mixed in her musings was her relationship with William, in addition to the health of the king, Charles III, and a possible abdication of her son linked to the cancer she suffers from.
Of all this, what is true?
The king, 75, was crowned on May 6, 2023 following the death of his mother, Elizabeth II, in September 2022 after reigning for more than 70 years.
Buckingham Palace announced on February 5 that the king has cancer, without giving further details of the diagnosis, and that he was undergoing “regular treatments” for which he had withdrawn from the bulk of his public work.
Added to the king's illness was concern about the health of the Princess of Wales, after it was learned on January 17 that she had been hospitalized for abdominal surgery, according to Kengsinton Palace.
The operation was a success, she added, but it would keep her away from her work for months.
The photo that Kate Middleton admitted to having manipulated.
Circles indicate areas with inconsistencies.TODAY Illustration / Prince of Wales
Her disappearance from the public scene fueled rumors about her health on social networks, which redoubled last week after the publication of a digitally altered photo of the princess;
Middleton apologized for this, taking responsibility for the alterations.
Kensington Palace insisted that her recovery remains in line with what was indicated after the operation.
And what is said on social networks without evidence?
Since this weekend there has been speculation on the networks about an "extremely important" announcement linked to the British royal family that would supposedly be made through the BBC, without going into details about who it would affect or how, beyond rumors with no apparent foundation. .
The BBC has not posted about that supposed announcement on its social media accounts, although that doesn't mean it isn't preparing it and making it official any day now.
Several Russian media, however, such as RIA, Sputnik, Readkovka and Mash, reported this Monday that Charles III had died, although they later retracted it, according to the British newspaper The Telegraph.
The British embassy in Moscow posted a message on the X network with a red banner saying that the news of the monarch's death was "FALSE!"
The British embassy in Ukraine followed suit.
Some accounts on the
For this, as other network users have indicated, photographs from when Queen Elizabeth II died in September 2022 have been used.
There are also claims that the BBC has changed its online logo to one with a black background, a sign of mourning, but in fact the white letters “BBC” on a black background are the profile photo of the BBC account on a month ago, according to The Internet Archive website.
We thus conclude that the possibility of the BBC making an announcement about the royal family
has no evidence
, and that the rumors about the king's death are, with the information available so far,
false
.