The Queen is fine, but here are the 37 best memes about her hoax death

This country is so weird

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Last night, a message from a group chat saying the Queen of England had died went viral. Of course, she’s fine but then the weirdest thing happened – is the Queen dead memes were circulating everywhere and #thequeenisdead started trending. I bet that’s a sentence you never thought you’d read.

A screenshot from a WhatsApp group chat called “Old times” was posted on Twitter. The group chat members: Burnsy, Cheeks, Gibbo, Josh, Morty and Ricey, were all shocked when Gibbo forwarded a message he claimed was from the Buckingham Palace guard’s group chat, saying: “Queen’s passed away this morning, heart attack, being announced 930am tomorrow, channel dash 0800 tomorrow in full number 1s, in your black kit bag you need: 1 set of 3s, 1 set of 4s, underwear and socks for 2 weeks, washing kit, body washing kit, cities fornstand down.”

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How do they BOTH know royal guards?????

I don’t know what I believe less: The Queen dies and that’s how we found out, Buckingham Palace guards have a group chat or that everyone on Twitter turned this into a meme??

Either way, The Queen is alive and well so here are the best memes from the whole fiasco:

1.

Queen Elizabeth opening Twitter and finding out she diedpic.twitter.com/yhV2IiFBfD

— Pimplosion (@EscPim) December 1, 2019

2. We all held our breath

me waiting to see if the queen is dead pic.twitter.com/5CrD9xsr4v

— Róisín Lanigan (@rosielanners) December 1, 2019

3. Yikes

Queen Elizabeth: I cannot wait you celebrate my 94th birthday The grim reaper: pic.twitter.com/3NyIUSsLDO

— ruh-zool (@razaool) December 1, 2019

4. DEAD?!

The staff at Buckingham Palace this morning pic.twitter.com/MdpfrxJRgM

— ?Russell (@RussellHayward) December 2, 2019

5. Lookin great, feelin great

The Queen announcing she ain’t dead tomorrow pic.twitter.com/RNq7qu12F5

— Hannah Golden (@antihan_) December 1, 2019

6. Tell ’em, Gibbo

The queen is (hopefully) dead. @iresimpsonsfans pic.twitter.com/AFeJ8FlIID

— Teig O'Kain and the Corpse (@Kainyewest) December 1, 2019

7. Gibbo mate what have you done

Gibbo tomorrow morning seeing the government outside his house after the Watsapp message about the Queen pic.twitter.com/3pusz8o1gm

— Sam (@samneale11) December 1, 2019

8. Legit confirmation

I don’t trust WhatsApp rumours. I won’t believe the Queen’s dead until I see it announced the official palace TikTok account.

— Michael Fry (@BigDirtyFry) December 1, 2019

9. They’d told us this all along

Just re-read that Guardian longread on what happens in the event of the Queen's death, and they got it bang on to be fair pic.twitter.com/eXbdyp24z3

— Chris Applegate (@chrisapplegate) December 1, 2019

10. Someone replied to this saying ‘unbelievable death’ and I logged out

Jeff: "We got to Chris Kamara outside Buckingham Palace, where the Queen has died. What's the news, Chris?"

Kamara: "I don't know Jeff, has she?" pic.twitter.com/kywN7Dkvm3

— Rex (@ThatRexGuy) December 1, 2019

11. REAL questions

The most important question on everyone’s lips today: Who are they going to cast as #Gibbo and Ricey in season 5 of The Crown?

— Jonathan Pie (@JonathanPieNews) December 2, 2019

12. Omg u guys

holy shit guys the queen is actually dead pic.twitter.com/XYnF1tHPUo

— gemma (@bloodpilots) December 1, 2019

13. Pure chaos

The Queen hoax is pure, distilled Twitter. Carnage, pure clownery and occasionally divine inspiration, then all the nerds who lock off their screens at a sensible time before bed wake up with absolutely no clue how to interpret the mad runes left from the 8 hours before.

— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) December 1, 2019

14. ‘I just wanna be me’

the queen reading all the tweets about her being dead when she’s actually fine pic.twitter.com/kJDOKLZ1uq

— Gemma Collins Memes (@GemmaReacts) December 1, 2019

15. Is this a dream????

If it’s true that the Queen is dead and it was leaked from a WhatsApp group with an erect penis as it’s profile pic… then I humbly request the programmers of this simulation to wake me the fuck up please. pic.twitter.com/oo7NCXfhPk

— Tez (@tezilyas) December 1, 2019

16. Congratulations, you’ve clicked on it x

Sweepstake on the first UK news website to try to hit their monthly traffic target by writing “Is the Queen dead?” SEO-bait, cited largely to the work of Gibbo and his forwarded WhatsApp message?

— Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) December 1, 2019

17. Iconic

the queen hearing rumours she’s dead pic.twitter.com/CaAu2dKhAK

— Yusuf (@yuxufyuxuf) December 1, 2019

18. This is the tweet

guys calm down the queen isn’t dead, i saw her in pizza express with prince andrew

— jasper (@jasperrrsmith) December 1, 2019

19. ‘I’m going nowhere’

The Queen releasing her statement tomorrow to let everyone know she is alive pic.twitter.com/BZWXeaJtbc

— Josh (@jxshgreen) December 1, 2019

20. Ok actually, this is the tweet

Me tomorrow when the announcement about the queen comes out pic.twitter.com/Oto4xRl3xK

— phil (@phil170899) December 1, 2019

21. Sike!!!!!

Twitter: ThE qUeEn iS dEaD

Queen Elizabeth: pic.twitter.com/RIW9ggie5V

— Timeline Terrorist (@Timeline2019) December 1, 2019

22. ALARM = OFF

The UK getting a day off when the queen dies. pic.twitter.com/tMF2etsGK8

— Jordaaaaan (@jordanwatson70) December 1, 2019

23. Tbf I heard this too

Apparently if The Queen's death doesnt get announced within 15 minutes we can legally get the day off tomorrow ?

— Rikos (@Rikos67_) December 1, 2019

24. I cannot REST

waiting for an official news source to confirm the queen's death pic.twitter.com/copxZF9LnT

— festive rat (@caseyrxid) December 1, 2019

25. I’m sorry

Me waking up tomorrow, realising the queen is still alive and a actually have to go to work pic.twitter.com/QeRXHa8QoT

— Liam King (@LK95_) December 1, 2019

26. Thanks for this

Twitter when they find out the Queen isn't actually dead https://t.co/Gml3Aa3aM4

— James Philbin-Smith (@smithyjlsh123) December 1, 2019

27. This is probably too much

so the queen didn’t die… pic.twitter.com/pD9GArMxZy

— john (@Scarlet4UrMa) December 1, 2019

28. FINALLY someone sensible getting involved

I see we have reached that time of year where I have to dispel rumours of HM's passing.

The Queen is not dead. She is alive & well and is very much looking forward to hosting President Trump and other world leaders at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday for the NATO reception.

— Charlie Proctor (@MonarchyUK) December 1, 2019

29. Oh wait, never mind!

30. You and me both, Ryan-Mark

I literally screamed pic.twitter.com/WcwME02WBA

— RYAN-MARK (@ryanmarkparsons) December 2, 2019

31. I’ve got a story I think you might be interested in

Hi @royalfamily, I’m a freelance reporter. Follow back so I can DM?

— Ben Gartside (@BenGartside) December 1, 2019

32. KNEW IT

I blocked all my friends from viewing my posts to see who was leaking the death of the Queen. It was……… Gibbo’s account.

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) December 1, 2019

33. Wow

burnsy, cheeks, gibbo, ricey, josh, morty pic.twitter.com/zkNFqHdia7

— Stan The Golden Boy (@tristandross) December 1, 2019

34. Yeah tbh

Most trusted names in British News

Gibbo 42%
Ricey 15%
Cheeks 22%
Ricey's mate 5%

Via YouGov, 1 Dec 2019

— James Doleman (@jamesdoleman) December 1, 2019

35. This lot will go down in history

telling my kids this was gibbo, ricey and cheeks pic.twitter.com/kWNVNqv5uG

— hussein kesvani (@HKesvani) December 1, 2019

36. Ugh I love Twitter

uk twitter: oh hey u guys are back early

gibbo: queen’s dead

uk twitter: what?

gibbo: *packing one set of 3s, one set of 4s and two weeks of underwear and socks in a black kit bag and getting back on the rocket-ship* queen’s dead

— VOTE LABOUR ON DEC 12TH ? (@Judoon_Platoon) December 1, 2019