The spoof came after a recent Sun newspaper story claiming that the queen was in favour of Britain leaving the EU which prompted Buckingham Palace to complain to Britain's press watchdog. However, there were apparently concerns that Philip could not be trusted with a live broadcast given his "propensity for swearing," the paper's prank story said. The Guardian claimed to have exclusive information that Greek-born Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's husband, would defy Britain's strict constitutional rules and come out in favour of the EU, given his "impeccable European credentials".Īccording to the paper's "well-connected source", the royal family had turned against London mayor and high-profile anti-EU campaigner Boris Johnson as he had "made it difficult to get around London in a decent-sized Daimler". Meanwhile readers of newspapers around the world were left puzzling over whether a series of improbable stories were true or not.īritain's papers, traditional bastions of the April Fools' tradition, concentrated on the June 23 referendum on membership of the European Union to trick readers. "The MicDrop feature inadvertently caused more headaches than laughs. "Well, it looks like we pranked ourselves this year," it said. Google later withdrew the feature and apologised. Another user, Faye Davies, added: "I send a legal document which affects mine and my family's life and you stick that button in the place of a send button.
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