Televised Royal Death Announcements: 1972 - 2022

I don’t think anyone will forget where they were when they heard that the Queen had died

To think that all of these deaths took place during Queen Elizabeth II's reign.

My grandmother told me the day she saw Queen Elizabeth's coronation on TV, it was the first time she saw a real Queen. She then watched the funeral of the Queen live on TV and not long afterwards, she herself would pass away.

I was 19 years old when I heard the news of the passing of the Queen. I'm from Australia, it was the morning of September 9th, I woke up and I reached over to grab my phone and the moment I turned it on I had an Apple News alert popped up say the Queen has died and I just gasped out loud and my family were in complete shock. It was raining that day and I was driving to work with my sunglasses on and the radio was playing countless reports of the Queen's passing and I couldn't stop crying all the way to work. When I arrived at the Bunnings Warehouse store where I work at I could see all my friends in shock and in tears throughout the whole day and our manager decided to turn off the music in the store and announced on the intercom for all of us to have a moment of silence to pay tribute and respect to the Queen.

I had just graduated from high school and celebrated my 18th birthday only 3 weeks before Princess Diana’s death in Paris, France. I remember getting up early to watch her funeral on TV here in the United States. The version of Candle In The Wind that Sir Elton John sang became a smash hit and I ended up buying the single. Her funeral introduced me to his music and in a way, the history of the royal family.

I cried like a baby when the queen passed away. I stood in line for 13 hours to view her coffin.

It was absolutely crazy timing when I found out about the Queen’s death. It was during history class. We were in the UK area in our studies that day, and we somehow got side-tracked onto the subject of the Queen. Then, my teacher brought up how her health was declining over the past few days. Then, we had lunch. After lunch, we came back to our class and we were told that the Queen died. She was truly one of the best ones out there. ❤ R.I.P

His Royal Highness, the Duke of Edinburgh & Her Majesty, the Queen’s deaths hit me the hardest 😢

I was on the phone to my Daughter discussing the Queen when we got the news she had passed, seeing the flag at half mast. I sat there and sobbed.

😢😥I live in Sydney, Australia and it was a Saturday morning when we heard The Queen has passed away. We will never see another person like her again.

diana’s death will never sit right with me. watching the announcement is eerie.

Since 1972, I can recall watching the death announcements of Lady/Princess Patricia Ramsay and Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, in 1974; Lord/Prince Louis, Earl Mountbatten of Burma in 1979; Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, in 1981; and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, in 2004. Don't any of these get a look-in?

As an American I expect it's a bit of a different view for me, however, as an avid Anglophile, I cried like a baby when Her Majesty passed. As a boy I always hoped she'd surpass Queen Victoria's length of reign. It seemed so impossible. To ME, Her Late Majesty became the WORLD'S Grandmother. May God Rest Her Soul. And May God Save the King!

For the queen’s death, Channel 5 was actually the first of the 5 main UK TV channels to announce her death

When I found out that the Queen died, I was on my way to work on the 2 train. I don’t remember what stop was next, but I remember announcing to the passengers in my traincar, "London Bridge is down, the Queen has died."

That day when Queen Elizabeth passed, I was in Rio de Janeiro, for the Rock in Rio music festival. I woke up quiet late, that day, around 1:30 pm when a friend of mine txt me saying “London Bridge is down”. Immediately I switched on my telly on BBC News and they were still concerned about her health. The confirmation of HM’s death came one hour later – at 2:33 pm local time - from Huw Edwards. When the national anthem was executed, afterwards, I stand up from my sofa and sang “God Save The King”. 😢 I’ll never forget that day.

4:17 The resolution here likely matched the Queen Mother's eyesight.

Timestamps: 0:00 Edward VIII / Duke of WIndsor (1972) 1:04 Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (1986) 2:04 Diana, Princess of Wales (1997) 3:44 Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (2002) 4:09 Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (2002) 5:48 HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (2021) 7:47 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (2022)

I really think it's neat how this same family has been followed for centuries and even a millennium. Normally, you wouldn't know any of your ancestors from 927 AD.

I was bell ringing at a feast of a town in Malta. I remember reading that her health was deteriorating earlier that day and then read that she passed away after a peal. It was the Victory Day of my country Malta, and the feast of Our Lady of Victories (The feast for which I was bell ringing). I will never forget that day.