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Yup, one of the unspoken rules of my job is that we will be expected to be at work throughout the lying-in-state. Even if we are abroad on holiday, we are expected to drop everything and be on the first flight home.
Whatever your opinion on the royals, the attention to detail of the plan is very impressive. When the Queen Mother died, the queues to see the coffin went out of Westminster Hall, split left and right down the pavement and over Westminster and Lambeth bridges, and were so long that they met on the other side of the river.
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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.