Sunday Times’ Queen Elizabeth errors reign on paper’s parade
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Version 0 of 1. Monkey hopes Queen Elizabeth will be as amused as Monkey was by the corrections column in the Sunday Times dealing with its magazine’s “The reign never stops” special commemorating her taking the record for Britain’s longest serving monarch. As the ST conceded, the issue contained “a number of inaccuracies” – that number being six. There but for the grace of etc. go all hacks, but how many errors can you get into one obsequious Sunday supplement? pic.twitter.com/2GXNZKLuil Highlights included getting the date of the Queen’s accession to the throne wrong, saying Edward VIII was Prince of Wales when he abdicated rather than king, forgetting which was her eldest grandson (Peter Phillips, not Prince William) and a picture caption confusing the former with his sister Zara. Perhaps the ST’s subs have discovered a republican streak? |