What is the London Bridge Protocol? Here's what happens when the Queen dies

[__onthebound]

With QEII's passing I wanted to share an article from 2017 that details exactly what happens next [summary bullets by me, it's a realllllly long article]:

Upon the death of UK's Queen Elizabeth II, her eldest son Charles became King https://t.co/pQeBbq3Qqi pic.twitter.com/9TkxCqzLkO
- Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) September 8, 2022

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[fernandocolunga]

His siblings will kiss his hands.

culture and tradition yall

[vibeology_e]

It probably made Andrew furious to have to do it which makes me so happy.

[aleksie]

I laughed at this, I don't know why.

[evilfirepixie8]

I did too, because I'm imaging what it's like to spend 60+ years with your brother just being a shitty brother and then one day - boom - he's the ruler of you. Like, how PISSED would you be?

[fernandocolunga]

Every station, down to hospital radio, has prepared music lists made up of “Mood 2” (sad) or “Mood 1” (saddest) songs to reach for in times of sudden mourning.• Stations (radio and tv) will play "Haunted Dancehall (Nursery Remix)" to mark the occasion. This is the 'something catastrophic has happened' music.

wtf this is a joke right it can’t be for real

[__onthebound]

The article is 100% serious! Idk if that changed since 2017 but I doubt it

[mangomuch]

Did they play the song now?

[dejatrue]

[fernandocolunga]

At dawn, the central window on the eastern front will have been removed and the roof outside covered in red felt.

i fucking can’t

This is why ONTD doesn’t read cause when i do it fucking hurts my brain from the nonsense

tour the country what is he one direction in 2011

[joyriders]

"His siblings will kiss his hands"

[escalena]

jesus christ are these his hands?

[joyriders]

yeah man! kiss the ring, pleb!!

[escalena]

More like kiss the radioactive sausage oh my god

[sandstorm]

• For a time, she will be gone without our knowing it.

tbh EVERYONE knew

This is the first monarch to be available for viewing in Westminster Abbey since 1760.

Why not the others I wonder.

[__onthebound]

I couldn't find evidence of her dad's funeral being televised. So she is the first to be in the "tv era"? That's my assumption since hers was the first coronation ever televised

[sandstorm]

I meant more like did they just not have her mother (or grandparents) lie in state in Westminster for the plebes back then?

[soapboxrhetoric]

looks like it was changed to "reigning monarch"