Operation “London Bridge is down”. For sixty years, Buckingham Palace has been rehearsing and refining a protocol intended for the day the Queen of England dies. When will this happen? The place ? No matter. Everything has already been thought out down to the smallest detail by the crown. Any eventuality can be avoided thanks to this precise plan, which remained (almost) secret until 2017,
before a journalist from the very serious Guardian does not reveal it.
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“London Bridge is down” or “The London Bridge has collapsed”. It is with these somewhat mysterious words that the British Prime Minister will be informed of the death of Elizabeth II, by his private secretary. From this moment, a very sophisticated protocol will be triggered, which will last nine days until the funeral of the queen.
From the coded announcement, to the special plane on stand-by in West London, we explain the whole plan in detail in the video at the top of this article.
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