As an April Fool's story, Britain's Daily Telegraph warned that France and Germany were to gang up and boot England out of this summer's Euro 2016 football tournament if they voted to leave the EU, punishing them for a lack of solidarity. ©AFP PHOTO / LOIC VENANCE
LONDON: An unlikely royal intervention into Britain's European referendum debate was among the April Fools' stories foxing the world's newspaper readers on April 1 – but for US internet giant Google, the joke was on them.
Britain's papers, traditional bastions of the light-hearted annual prank, concentrated on the country's June 23 referendum on membership of the European Union to trick unsuspecting victims.
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