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From a report by The Guardian:
“From the Foreign Office’s Global Response Centre, at an undisclosed location in the capital, the news will go out to the 15 governments outside the UK where the Queen is also the head of state, and the 36 other nations of the Commonwealth for whom she has served as a symbolic figurehead – a face familiar in dreams and the untidy drawings of a billion schoolchildren – since the dawn of the atomic age.
The information will travel like the compressional wave ahead of an earthquake, detectable only by special equipment. Governors general, ambassadors and prime ministers will learn first. Cupboards will be opened in search of black armbands, three-and-a-quarter inches wide, to be worn on the left arm.”
It is only once governments have been told that the media will be allowed to inform the public. And in this day and age, it’s most likely that the general public will hear of the news through social media.
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According to The Guardian, after the news has become public, a footman in mourning (black) clothes will emerge from a door at Buckingham Palace and pin a black-edged notice to the gates. At this moment, “the palace website will be transformed into a sombre, single page, showing the same text on a dark background.”
Prince Charles would then be crowned King and his son, Prince William, would take his dad’s former position as Prince of Wales.
When thinking back to the raw emotions that proceeded the death of Princess Diana in 1997, it’s said that the passing of the Queen will be “monumental by comparison.”
