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  • This may have been posted already. This is long, but a really interesting read about the preparations for the ten days or so following the queen's death.

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/16/what-happens-when-queen-elizabeth-dies-london-bridge

    Insane planning, seemingly minute by minute at some point (for example making sure that processions get to their destination just as soon as clocks begin to chime on the hour), what the BBC will say once the song currently playing finishes, exactly how the various other royals will be shepherded around etc.
    Apparently people have been meeting very regularly for years to rehearse all the various points of the plan.

  • In my previous job, every year, I updated and overhauled the police search response as part of Op London Bridge and Forth Bridge (DofE) in relation to Windsor. Route searches, unoccupied premises, drains and manholes, temporary structures et al.
    There will be free camping alongside the river on Home Park (public) for when the Queen goes in case you're interested.
    csb etc. bragging thread >>>>>

  • Wow - that's cool. I found the whole thing fascinating - particularly about how much of the stuff they'll be doing just isn't really in living memory any more.

    I'm no royalist and won't be involved in any of the processions or whatever; I'm sure there'll be loads of people that will go on about how it shouldn't be treated any different to any other old woman dying. But the event itself is obviously immense and there must be such a cascade of planned 'stuff' to be done, exactly like you're describing.

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