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Trending: The misrule of Canada’s QAnon queen

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20/08/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - Trending, The misrule of Canada’s QAnon queen

The QAnon influencer whose “royal decrees” are causing real life harm to her followers.

Romana Didulo has proclaimed herself Queen of Canada and claims to have abolished personal debt. It’s a fantasy, but her loyal subjects are suffering real life consequences.

Romana Didulo is a QAnon influencer who proclaimed herself “Queen of Canada”. She has issued a series of bizarre and bloodcurdling “royal decrees” claiming to have cancelled all personal debt and threatening the death penalty for those who defy her.  It’s all a complete fantasy, but that hasn’t prevented her attracting a sizeable following which helps fund her tours around her kingdom in a fleet of large motor homes. Now this maple leaf monarch is seeking to expand her empire beyond Canada. But all is not well in the court of Queen Romana. Followers who believed her claims are suffering the real life consequences of stopping paying their rent and utility bills. While others who tried to enact her commands have faced arrest.  

Presenter: Rachel Schraer
Editor: Ed Main

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