The profound sense of loss felt by so many, myself included, came as a shock. As did the words “this is the BBC from London”. Trying to rationalise that grief against the reality that this was a lady I had never met, someone I only saw on TV, caused great upset to me and, I’m sure, to us all.
The death of the Queen has also been an object lesson in the internet’s place in the transmission of news. We were watching, live, a statement by the newly appointed
