Operation london bridge

• العربية • বাংলা • Brezhoneg • Català • Čeština • Deutsch • Ελληνικά • Español • فارسی • Français • 한국어 • Հայերեն • Bahasa Indonesia • Italiano • עברית • Bahasa Melayu • Nederlands • 日本語 • Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча • پښتو • Polski • Português • Русский • Simple English • Slovenčina • Svenska • ไทย • Türkçe • Українська • Tiếng Việt • Võro • 中文 • v • t • e Operation London Bridge was the funeral plan for The phrase " London Bridge is down" was used to communicate the death of the Queen to the Several other plans were also created to support the implementation of Operation Operation Unicorn (the plan that detailed what was to happen if Elizabeth were to die in Scotland, which she did). Running concurrently with Operation London Bridge were operations concerning Background [ ] Funerals and coronations of members of the royal family are typically organised by the Pre-determined phrases have typically been used as "codenames" for plans relating to the death and funeral of a royal family member. Initially, codenames were used by key officials in an effort to prevent Several codenamed funeral plans for royal family members in the late-20th and early-21st centuries have used the names of prominent bridges in the United Kingdom. Plan [ ] Preparations for Queen Elizabeth II's death and funeral date back to the 1960s, with the plan having undergone multiple changes in the decades since. The plan was updated three times a year through a meeting involving government department officials, th...

I n the plans that exist for the death of the Queen – and there are many versions, held by Buckingham Palace, the government and the BBC – most envisage that she will die after a short illness. Her family and doctors will be there. When the Queen Mother passed away on the afternoon of Easter Saturday, in 2002, at the Royal Lodge in Windsor, she had time to telephone friends to say goodbye, and to give away some of her horses. In these last hours, the Queen’s senior doctor, a gastroenterologist named Professor Huw Thomas, will be in charge. He will look after his patient, control access to her room and consider what information should be made public. The bond between sovereign and subjects is a strange and mostly unknowable thing. A nation’s life becomes a person’s, and then the string must break. There will be bulletins from the palace – not many, but enough. “The Queen is suffering from great physical prostration, accompanied by symptoms which cause much anxiety,” announced Sir James Reid, Queen Victoria’s physician, two days before her death in 1901. “The King’s life is moving peacefully towards its close,” was the final notice issued by George V’s doctor, Lord Dawson, at 9.30pm on the night of 20 January 1936. Not long afterwards, Dawson injected the king with 750mg of morphine and a gram of cocaine – enough to kill him twice over – in order to ease the monarch’s suffering, and to have him expire in time for the printing presses of the Times, which rolled at midnight. R...

[Narrator] After nearly 66 years on the throne, Queen Elizabeth II is the longest reigning monarch in British history. And has been a constant and calming force amidst the fast paced changes her country has faced. Making it even more inconceivable to think about what happens when she dies. Born in 1926, she was expected to live a relatively normal life, well, normal at least by royal standards. As third in line to the throne, spending most of her early years out of the public eye. Everything changed in 1936, when her uncle, King Edward VIII, abdicated the throne in order to marry his true love, Wallis Simpson. You see, back then, marrying a divorcee, not to mention a two time divorcee, was a huge faux pas to the Church of England. And just like that, Princess Elizabeth's father, King George VI, ascended to the throne, making her the next in line. And by 1952, following his death, her time arrived and the rest is history. When the Queen ascended to the throne in 1952, she was a Head of State in seven countries. The size of The Commonwealth has since expanded to 53 countries comprising nearly one third of the world's population, and still includes 16 countries where the monarch is officially the Head of State. This brings us to Operation London Bridge. The plan that no one wants to talk about. The plan for what happens when the Queen dies. No matter how secretive Buckingham Palace may be about the plans that surround her death, everyone knows exactly what to do. And the plan...