In 2012, Australian DJs Mel Greig and Michael Christian played a practical joke by calling the hospital where Kate Middleton was receiving treatment, sh0cking the globe when nurse Jacintha Saldanha sadly committed sui:ci:de. In order to obtain information about the Princess of Wales, who was receiving treatment for morning sickness while carrying Prince George at King Edward VII’s Hospital in London in December of that year, the two radio hosts, who were then employed at 2Day FM radio, posed as the late Queen Elizabeth and the then-Prince Charles. Saldanha, a 46-year-old mother of two, forwarded the call to the ward where Kate was residing after being tricked by their prank call impressions into thinking they were the royals. Sadly, after realising she had been fooled, the nurse took her own life. According to The Times, in one of three notes written before taking her own life, Saldanha expressed how angry she was with the Australian radio presenters and blamed them for her suicide.
