Australian DJ Mel Grieg of the radio program Today FM broke her silence on the journalistic prank call that delivered a scoop confirming that royal Kate Middleton was pregnant with an heir to the British Crown.
But the call is also being connected to a tragedy: The nurse who was fooled by Mel and her partner’s impression of the Queen and Prince Charles has been found dead in an apparent suicide.
Miranda Devine is a columnist with Sydney’s Daily Telegraph.
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