{"id":110052,"date":"2026-05-21T14:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/king-charles-iii-dead-radio-caroline-apologizes-for-announcement\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T14:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:06:19","slug":"king-charles-iii-dead-radio-caroline-apologizes-for-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/king-charles-iii-dead-radio-caroline-apologizes-for-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles III Dead? Radio Caroline Apologizes For Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/prince_charles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\"><strong>King Charles III<\/strong><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> is doing just fine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">After the U.K. station Radio Caroline mistakenly announced the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">77-year-old&#8217;s <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">death May 19, station manager <\/span><strong>Peter Moore <\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\">issued an <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">official apology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">&#8220;Due to a computer error at our main studio,&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/radiocarolineofficial\/posts\/pfbid025zXE2osrreijQQD7zBaYeVLXN2zSdKjfWopRxv5ynvFknJbRJX36vWmqBLvuuCEvl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">May 20 Facebook statement <\/a>began, &#8220;the Death of a Monarch procedure, which all UK stations hold in readiness while hoping not to require, was accidentally activated on Tuesday afternoon (19 May), mistakenly announcing that HM the King had passed away.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">&#8220;Radio Caroline then fell silent as would be required, which alerted us to restore programming and issue an on-air apology,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Caroline has been pleased to broadcast Her Majesty the Queen&#8217;s, and now the King&#8217;s Christmas Message and we hope to do so for many years to come. We apologize to HM the King and to our listeners for any distress caused.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">As for what happened? After the station played <\/span><strong>4 Non Blondes<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\">&#8216; &#8220;What&#8217;s Up,&#8221; an automated message announcing Charles&#8217; death began playing, per audio circulating on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1432216\/king-charles-iii-dead-radio-caroline-apologizes-for-announcement?cmpid=rss-syndicate-genericrss-us-top_stories\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King Charles III is doing just fine. After the U.K. station Radio Caroline mistakenly announced the 77-year-old&#8217;s death May 19, station manager Peter Moore issued<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity","category-spotlight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}