I'm loving all these posts!
I remember being at the dentist's with my mother (I wasn't all that young though!) My sister and I sat in the waiting room while the dentist attended to our mother's teeth. When she came out she was upset, and told us that the dentist had put the radio on in his surgery and they'd just heard the announcement that the King was dead.
(I'm referring to George VI, not Henry VIII, before anyone chaffs me. I'm not as old as that!)