Anonymous ID: 5eae1f Sept. 9, 2022, 6:47 a.m. No.17515865   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>6271 >>6292 >>6309 >>6503

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What happens now the Queen has died? Operation Unicorn is triggered after Her Majesty died at Balmoral not London: Royal Train is sent to convey her coffin back to London, Scottish Parliament is suspended and Britain enters 10 days of official mourning

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6593747/What-happens-Queen-died-Operation-Unicorn-triggered.html

 

The death of the Queen in Scotland has triggered contingency plans known as Operation Unicorn.

 

Part of the long-held so-called London Bridge arrangements for the aftermath of Elizabeth's death, Unicorn sets in motion additional ceremonial events in Edinburgh ahead of the logistics of moving the Queen's coffin back to London.

 

The Earl Marshal who is in charge of the plans will, along with royal aides and the Government, be rapidly adjusting the overarching timetable to incorporate the Scottish element, as the military, clergy and police turn their attention to the immense practicalities.

 

The Royal Family has already made the urgent dash to Balmoral, with Charles - the new king - and the Queen's other children the Princess Royal, the Duke of York and the Earl of Wessex at the monarch's bedside.

 

As preparations get under way for the funeral, the accession process for a new head of state begins immediately.

 

Prince Charles, 73, is now effectively king although protocol dictates that he is proclaimed as the new monarch the day after the Queen's death.

 

This will take place at a meeting of the Accession Council, which usually gathers at St James's Palace in London. The codename for King Charles’s accession to the throne is Operation Spring Tide.

 

Members of the royal family will be expected in the coming days to hold a poignant vigil around the Queen's coffin in St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh.

 

Also at Balmoral are the Duke of Cambridge, now the heir to the throne, and Camilla - the new Queen, and the Countess of Wessex. Initially, the Queen's coffin is expected to be at rest in the Ballroom at Balmoral.

 

The Scottish Parliament will be suspended, with Her Majesty's body expected to first be taken to Edinburgh on the Royal Train in a journey lasting more than five hours to lie at rest overnight in the Palace of Holyroodhouse.

 

The following day her coffin will be carried up the Royal Mile to St Giles's Cathedral for a service of reception.

 

The Queen's children are expected to stage a vigil around the Queen's coffin - known as the Vigil of the Princes - while it lies in the cathedral. Members of the public are expected to be allowed in to file past the Queen's coffin to pay their respects.

 

The Queen's coffin will then be put on the Royal Train once again and be taken back to Buckingham Palace in London.

 

Another contingency plan, codenamed Operation Overstudy will be triggered if the journey is to be made by air, most likely flying the coffin on an aircraft of the Queen’s Flight to RAF Brize Norton or RAF Northholt.

 

Whether the coffin is borne by air or rail, it will be met by a reception committee of the Prime Minister and members of her Cabinet upon its arrival in London.

 

Once Her Majesty's body is back at Buckingham Palace, there will be eight further days of the official period of mourning that will end with her funeral at Westminster Abbey.

 

An extraordinary level of action will now be required by all arms of the British state, including a vast security operation to manage the unprecedented crowds and travel chaos that could see, in the words of one official memo, London being declared 'full'.

 

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