On September 1, 2021, the world media went around the news that the British queen ordered 80 T -shirts Cristiano Ronaldo, and also asked for an autograph for the first time in her life. We checked if it was true.

Here is the typical text of the news: “The Queen of Great Britain Elizabeth II asked the leadership of Manchester United to allocate 80 T -shirts of striker Cristiano Ronaldo for the royal court. In addition, Elizabeth reserved the first T -shirt of the Portuguese football player, which he signed after returning to Old Trafford. It is reported by Sport Innovation Society. "

As of September 2, this information was present on such Russian-speaking Internet resources as Prostoprosport, Kazanfirst, Dynamomania.com, "Rambler / female", XSPORT. This news also caused a great resonance in the West: for example, it was distributed by the dedicated Portuguese Twitter account TCR. (224,000 subscribers, 1210 Retvites News) and The United Stand -Fan club of the current team Ronaldo (748,000 subscribers, 1449 retweets).

The primary source of news was, as noted in some publications, tweet from Sport Innovation Society - A much more modest resource having less than 27,000 subscribers. Nevertheless, the name of the 36-year-old Portuguese, which on the same day Updated the world record In terms of the number of balls for the national team, today it has such a weight that the news about it is distributed with lightning speed. However, soon the sensational tweet disappeared, and instead appeared message: “We could not confirm the reliability of the message about the queen and CR7, so we decided to remove the tweet. Sorry". Thus, the message turned out to be an ordinary duck. However, the news could no longer be stopped, and she continued her journey through world information resources.

It should be noted that the “sympathy” of the British queen in relation to the “red devils” in itself would be enough sensational news. In England, where the issue of football addictions is always quite acute, most members of the royal family carefully hide their preferences, and the queen is no exception. A few years ago passed hearingWhat she is under the Club “West Ham United”, however, the journalists could not confirm this information. Neutrality is preserved.