This is the protocol long been mentioned in the event of a royal death

Jedi boro

Jedi boro

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A few of us did highlight this before but it’s not unexpected...

www.theguardian.com

'London Bridge is down': the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death

The long read: She is venerated around the world. She has outlasted 12 US presidents. She stands for stability and order. But her kingdom is in turmoil, and her subjects are in denial that her reign will ever end. That’s why the palace has a plan.
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This is the plan for the queen but this is very similar

The media would be informed via an announcement to PA Media and the BBCthrough the Radio Alert Transmission System (RATS) and to commercial radio on the Independent Radio News through a network of blue "obit lights" which will alert presenters to play "inoffensive music" and prepare for a news flash, while BBC Two would suspend scheduled programming and switch to BBC One's broadcast of the announcement.[8] BBC News will air a pre-recorded sequence of portraits, during which the presenters on duty at the time will prepare for the formal announcement by putting on dark clothing prepared for this purpose. The Guardian has reported that The Times has eleven days of prepared coverage ready and that ITN and Sky News have long rehearsed her death, but substituting the name "Mrs Robinson".[2]
 
This level of programming is what I thought would happen when the Queen pops her clogs, how to they turn it up to 11 , to coin a phrase when she does go?
 
It got to the point last night when it was trying. I switched the TV off and read a book.

I didn't comment on the RIP thread as I felt unable to contribute objectively. I feel somewhat detached from these outpourings. I remember watching the events following Diana's death with a similar feeling, looking at my countrymen and women with an almost alien detachment. Why are all these people so upset?

The only person who I have never met whose death "hit" me was Terry Pratchett and so that is the benchmark by which I try to assess my own behaviour. I am aware that the death of Sir Terry would have been meaningless to a lot of people, I didn't expect it to hit me in the way it did. So I understand the experience of loss even though I don't feel it at DoE's death. If someone had made a joke about the passing of TP at the time I would have been quite offended so I will try to behave in the way that I now believe is correct.

To anyone who keenly feels the loss of another person, even someone they have never met, it is right to feel loss that way, I wish you peace in your thoughts.
 
In true internet style I can’t be bothered to read all of the article. But can I ask, how many hours after the passing does it become permissible to make jokes about Prince Harry Or Andrew. Just asking for a friend.
 
The jokes were coming through within a half an hour.

what was interesting is that within minutes the bbc had a number if articles obviously all pre - prepared.

I also saw a documentary with members of the royal family which I also found very odd taht they had had to do that ore his death but talking of his passing - that must have been very strange for them to film that.
 
I find the media reaction to be totally inappropriate.

We will see wall to wall platitudes for a couple of days maybe right up until the funeral.

Then the next political or other story will get the MSM attention and Prince Phillip will be dropped, never to be spoken of again, and he will be relegated by them to be a footnote in the history of the country.

The media reaction is neither genuine or helpful, how can it be morally correct to make programmes in preparation for somebody’s death? It’s appalling, no excuse for it.

Then you get a load of ‘doing their duty by the royal family’ broadcasts which are neither spontaneous or sincere.

What a bunch.
 
What Muttley said for the most part.

I 'phoned my mother yesterday to check that she was OK as she is a royalist and a huge admirer of PPOG. She was OK but upset, obviously. Without thinking I mentioned that things had gone all North Korea and she laughed, fortunately. "This is nothing compared to when the King died," she said. "All we got was mournful music on the radio for a week and there was no telly. It was terrible." She's getting her second vaccination about now.
 
I won't comment on some of the other threads. I have my own feelings on the royals and their reliance on ordinary folk but that's irrelevant. This level of interuption though; just isn't acceptable in the 21st centuary regardless of the protocol. Not even for the Queen IMHO.

Life goes on as Covid has so humbly taught us over the past year
 
Emmersons_BrazillianDong said:
I won't comment on some of the other threads. I have my own feelings on the royals and their reliance on ordinary folk but that's irrelevant. This level of interuption though; just isn't acceptable in the 21st centuary regardless of the protocol. Not even for the Queen IMHO.

Life goes on as Covid has so humbly taught us over the past year
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Interruption? You mean a few TV channels running extended news programs?

atypical_boro said:
I don’t get the whole “8 days” thing. Why does a number need to be put on it? Can’t people just mourn or not mourn as they see fit?
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Because it's until the day of his funeral. Also, it isn't an instruction for you to personally mourn.
 
MFP said:
Interruption? You mean a few TV channels running extended news programs?


Because it's until the day of his funeral. Also, it isn't an instruction for you to personally mourn.
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Fine, but does just feel a bit “instructive”.
 
MFP said:
Because you don't understand what a period of national mourning involves?
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No I guess I don’t, and I’m pretty sure plenty of others don’t. I always thought mourning was a personal action, not a national one.
 
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