Operation Menai Bridge: Codename for Charles’ demise as plan already organized
Plans for King Charles‘ demise had been drawn up lengthy earlier than the monarch was recognized with “a type of most cancers“.
Buckingham Palace introduced the information yesterday (Tuesday, February 5) and whereas officers stopped in need of revealing what type of the illness Charles has, they confirmed it’s “separate” to his enlarged prostate and was found whereas he was being handled for the situation.
Charles is regarded as remaining “hugely positive” concerning the information, having acquired a constructive prognosis. But regardless of the comparatively optimistic outlook, the Palace has been making ready for the King’s demise for fairly a while – lengthy earlier than he acquired the prognosis.
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Operation Menai Bridge is the codename for the preparations that may comply with the monarch’s demise. It follows Operation London Bridge, the plan drawn up within the Nineteen Sixties that was triggered when Queen Elizabeth handed away in September 2022.
Speaking shortly after Her Majesty’s demise, former royal safety officer Simon Morgan stated preparation for Operation Menai Bridge will start sooner quite than later. He advised Today on September 19, 2022: “Unfortunately, as of tomorrow morning planning for Operation Menai Bridge will begin in earnest.
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“Even the King said in his acceptance that he will take this role for as long as life allows him to. He is 73 years of age, it’s got to be in the back of your mind, and from the police, we’ve got to start planning again for the future.”
The plan is just not very completely different from the preparations put in place following the Queen’s demise. As quickly because the operation is underway, Prince William will grow to be King alongside his spouse, Kate Middleton, who will assume the position of Queen Consort.
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He will then make an handle to the nation very like his father did on September 9, 2022, and the general public would enter a interval of nationwide mourning. The prime minister and the King’s Privy Council Office might be given the unlucky information by the King’s non-public secretary.
A script could have been drawn as much as inform authorities ministers of the information and the cupboard secretary will ship an e-mail to senior civil servants, at which level flags throughout Whitehall might be lowered to half-mast.
The operation is known as after the world’s first iron suspension bridge in Anglesey, Wales. Codenames had been first launched to cease switchboard operators at Buckingham Palace studying the information earlier than it was introduced publicly and leaking it.
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