Her demise after 70 years on the throne starts a top-secret military-precision operation called ‘London Bridge’ – the ceremonial formalities when the British queen dies.
Flags were lowered to half-staff to honor Britain’s longest-serving monarch.
In the U.S., the White House and Capitol Building will fly half-staff flags.
On the last day of sorrow, the Queen’s state funeral will be place at Westminster Abbey in London.
As funeral preparations begin, the succession process begins.
Protocol mandates that Prince Charles, 73, be declared king the day after the Queen’s death.
The Accession Council meets at St. James’s Palace in London.
Operation Spring Tide is code for King Charles’ accession.
Because Her Majesty died in Scotland at her beloved Balmoral Castle, Operation Unicorn is underway.
The protocol is part of the 1960s-era Operation London Bridge plans, which were never made public.
The Queen’s coffin will be transported 103 miles from Balmoral Castle to Edinburgh, where she will repose in state at Holyroodhouse.
People can pay their respects at St Giles’ Cathedral on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.
Then, Her Majesty will return to Buckingham Palace in London for the remaining eight days of mourning.
If the voyage is performed by air, Operation Overstudy will be activated to fly the coffin on a Queen’s Flight aircraft to one of two RAF sites in the south of England.
All arms of the British state must now take extraordinary action, including a massive security effort to control the huge crowds and travel problems that might see London proclaimed ‘full’.
Her Majesty’s final public photo was taken in Balmoral Castle’s Drawing Room. She met Britain’s new PM, Liz Truss.
Tens of millions of people will mourn the woman who led Britain through 9/11, the Cold War, and the coronavirus outbreak with stoicism.
Her death marks the end of the second Elizabethan Era, when the Queen forged a strong relationship between the UK and US.
From Harry Truman in 1951 through Joe Biden in 2021, she met 13 presidents. Johnson was the exception.
The Queen died in Balmoral, the 50,000-acre Scottish home where she was’most happy’ and made treasured memories with her family and late husband Prince Philip.
The Accession Council will gather at St. James’s Palace a day following the Queen’s death.
Privy Counsellors, Great Officers of State, and the Lord Mayor and City Civic party will attend.
The council also includes Commonwealth High Commissioners and top British civil professionals.
At this conference, Britain will declare King Charles as its new monarch.
The new line of succession after the Queen’s death. The King is Prince Charles
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Liz Truss was the first person outside Buckingham Palace to learn of the Queen’s death.
Before a “official notification” was delivered to the leading British broadcasters, including the BBC, a “call cascade” was made to Cabinet members, the privy council, and top military personnel.
According to London Bridge plans, they will have read a writing that said, “The Queen has died.” ‘Discretion needed’
After the public was informed, ministers and government workers were to get an email saying, ‘With regret, I notify you of Her Majesty The Queen’s death.’
All flags at Whitehall in London and state buildings nationwide are at half-staff.
Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland will also summon parliament.
The Royal Family’s website has turned black and confirmed the Queen’s death.
Government websites feature pre-designed banners.
Official Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram accounts will turn dark and pause other tweets.
The PM will salute Her Majesty from Downing Street.
The PM and Cabinet members will attend a Remembrance service at St Paul’s Cathedral.
In early June 2022, Her Majesty stands on the Buckingham Palace balcony for her Platinum Jubilee. Her last appearance on London’s famed balcony
The Royal Windsor Horse Show published a new image of the Queen for her 96th birthday.
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The Accession Council consists of Privy Counsellors, Great Officers of State, the Lord Mayor and City Civic party, Realm High Commissioners, and top civil workers.
King Charles will be proclaimed the new king, but he can change his name.
He may be King Philip, Arthur, or George instead of Charles III.
Charles would promise to ‘inviolably protect and preserve the Settlement of the pure Protestant Religion’ in Scotland.
Men must wear morning dress or lounge suits with black or dark ties. No medals or decorations.
Prince William, 40, becomes king. After William’s children, Prince George, 8, Princess Charlotte, 6, and Prince Louis, 3, Prince Harry, 37, is next in line.
Queen Elizabeth II has approved Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall as Queen Consort.
The Accession Proclamation will be read aloud and signed before being read to the public in Edinburgh, Cardiff, and Belfast.
The Council will order a seven-minute 41-gun salute in Hyde Park.
Then, politicians will swear loyalty to the new leader.
At noon, the Prime Minister will lead tributes in the House of Commons.
The PM and Cabinet will see King Charles at 3:30pm GMT. No spouses.
Princess Elizabeth in a dance dress in 1932 and her first Christmas broadcast in 1952.
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Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, is the new heir apparent.
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The Queen’s death at Balmoral means that ‘Operation London Bridge’ arrangements for her mourning and funeral will be implemented.
London Bridge’s Operation Unicorn covers the monarch’s passing in Scotland.
The Queen’s coffin will be taken from Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire to Edinburgh on a special train, where she will rest in state at Holyroodhouse.
The casket is anticipated to be taken to St Giles’ Cathedral on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.
Next, the Queen will either take a train from Waverley Station to London’s King’s Cross or fly.
Thousands of people will be able to pay their respects along the East Coast mainline if the monarch’s body travels by train.
If the coffin is flown, Operation Overstudy will be activated and the Queen’s Flight will fly it to RAF Brize Norton or RAF Northholt.
Whether the casket arrives by air or rail, the Prime Minister and her Cabinet will greet it.
Her casket will be placed in the Throne Room of Buckingham Palace.
Altar, pall, Royal Standard, and four Grenadier Guards with bearskin headgear tilted and rifles pointed to the floor will stand watch.
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The new King Charles will visit Westminster Hall at the Houses of Parliament to start his UK tour.
There, MPs will give a “condolence motion.”
His next stop is Edinburgh, where he’ll visit the Scottish parliament and attend a memorial service.
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King Charles will then fly to Northern Ireland, where devolved parliament members will present another motion of sympathy at Hillsborough Castle, the formal residence of the monarch while in Northern Ireland.
He’ll then attend a Belfast cathedral service.
In London, Operation Lion, the first rehearsal of the Queen’s coffin procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Palace via The Mall, will take place.
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The Queen’s body will be taken to Westminster Palace to lie in state.
The parade is the first after Her Majesty’s death.
In 2002, 1,600 people marched slowly for the Queen Mother. The route holds 1 million people.
She’ll attend a memorial service.
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Operation Feather, the Queen’s state visit, begins.
Her coffin will sit on a dark catafalque to make it easier for the public to see it during the funeral or while laying in state.
VIPs will be the first to see Westminster Hall when it opens 23 hours a day. They’ll have timed slots to visit.
Charles will finish his UK tour in Wales. Before a memorial service in Cardiff, he’ll visit the Welsh parliament.
The royal household and Whitehall will be busy organizing for Day 10’s funeral, especially for heads of state, VIPs, and dignitaries.
Transport, Home Office, and Border Force have plans for how many Britons and foreign tourists will visit London. Over a million individuals may attend.
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Day 10: Queen’s funeral. It will be a “Day of National Mourning,” but not a British holiday.
Her Majesty will attend the state funeral at Westminster Abbey, followed by a two-minute national quiet at noon. Expect 2,000 attendees.
Pallbearers will set the casket on the green gun carriage used for the Queen’s father, his father, and his father’s father, and 138 junior sailors will pull.
This practice began at Queen Victoria’s burial in 1901, when horses threatened to bolt and ratings pulled the coffin instead.
The procession heads to the Mall. The hearse will travel 23 miles from Hyde Park Corner to Windsor Castle. On the grass, the royal household will be waiting.
King Charles will sprinkle a handful of red earth from a silver basin in St George’s Chapel’s royal vault.
She’ll be buried close to Prince Philip.
Prince Charles’ coronation is unknown. His mother was crowned 16 months after King George VI’s death.
On Oct. 23, 2016, the Queen and Prince Charles dined at Buckingham Palace. Now King Charles
The Queen and Prince Philip laugh at Enrique Pena Nieto’s Westminster welcome on March 3, 2015.
2002 state funeral of the Queen Mother. The congregation watches as pallbearers place her coffin in Westminster Abbey, London. 2002 hearse at Windsor Castle carrying the Queen Mother’s coffin
After King George VI’s death on February 6, 1952, the royal flag at full staff flies over Windsor Castle, followed by the Queen’s carriage.
King George V’s funeral procession in Norfolk, January 20, 1936. A green gun carriage used by the Queen’s father and his father will accompany her coffin from Westminster Abbey.
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