[Frances]

I think there was some kind of warning, you can see people running across the BBC newsroom on the TOTH sequence a few minutes before it's announced

That happened after the Press Association issued the Palace’s announcement.

We all know broadcasters didn’t know what was exactly going on before the official announcement, but Nicholas Witchell said he got an email from the Palace at 18:28, when he was sitting next to Huw.

According to Peter Sissons’ book, Jennie Bond is the first BBC journalist who was informed of the death of the Queen Mother in 2002. So I guess the Palace still tells the BBC’s royal correspondent but this time it was a very short notice.