Did anyone official say the words?

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Hi, I know someone on here will know. It’s useless to search online. Did anyone say ‘The Queen is dead, long live the king’? I understood that the public pronouncement of these words was important to avoid an interregnum. I’ve always been interested in this but can’t find any reference to it taking place.

Of course not. Despite all the strange going ons, I would find it difficult to imagine someone saying something so heartless

Nigel Farage tweeted it. It looked awful IMO

It’s the traditional saying at the death of a monarch to avoid an interregnum. I don’t think NF saying it would have any weight.

The crown transfers automatically on the death of the monarch. No one needs to say the words, it's not a spell.

There's a Briefing Paper on what happens in the Commons Library
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9372/

The Crown passed automatically to Charles on her death. There's no interregnum because she had a direct living heir.

I was just reading this article which suggests those words would potentially be used at a ceremony later this morning but that’s it’s not part of the official proclamation: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62857578