[Worzel]

AIUI there were rumours circulating that there might be some form of announcement at around 6pm.

The Royal Family's Twitter account changed its header board and Avatar slightly before they posted the announcement (which was posted at 18:30 on the nose). I saw that first as I was auto refreshing the page every couple of minutes before the Tweet appeared, at around 18:29.

Looking back, IRN Net Newsroom's Flash came down at 18:30 and 30 seconds. As soon as the announcement went out on BBC News/One everything else is a blur as I had to then lead the radio station I work at's coverage and make the announcement myself.

In terms of which channel broke it first, looking back at various clips, it was Sky News by a fraction, then Huw on BBC News/One before all channels joined for the black slide moment and it was repeated again. ITV seemed to be at the same time Huw did the second announcement. Channel 4 news and 5 News were about the same time as ITV (I think).

I do fear that in the future when programmes are made about how the news was broken, programmes will show the News report slide version of Huw and not the original announcement, which would in part rewrite history.