Queen Elizabeth II has died

His health was deemed “worrying” by his doctors just two days after receiving the new Prime Minister Liz Truss, successor of Boris Johnson. At around 6:30 pm (London time) this Thursday, September 8, Buckingham Palace announced the death of the ruler.

Queen Elizabeth II has died

This Thursday, 8 September, Queen Elizabeth II died, born on 21 April 1926, daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, after over 70 years of reign.

He leaves four children, eight grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren and the memory of a kingdom extraordinary that will have marked the generations.

While her platinum jubilee was celebrated from 2 to 5 June in the presence of her family, one who has crossed the centuries, who has met an incredible number of presidents, ministers, who has experienced wars, who has seen her country divide , unite, the one who had an immeasurable devotion to duty and a life of service, the one who even had a Barbie in her likeness and a Netflix series, is gone.

Less than two years after the death of the one who had been her husband for 74 years, Philip Mountbatten, the queen, believed to be unbeatable, died.

We will know more in the coming days about the protocol that will be put in place for his funeral, even if everything has already been orchestrated and planned for years. A protocol soberly called theOperation London Bridge.

Operation London Bridgethe protocol on the death of the queen

The queen wrote her protocol a long time ago, detailing what will happen when she dies. She takes her name from a London bridge, here’s what will happen:

• The flags will be at half mast (they were about ten minutes before the official announcement of his death)
• The Press Associationwho has exclusive information about his death, hand over to the BBC, who will take care of the event.

• The country will observe national mourning for 10 days until the funeral.
• The body will rest at Buckingham Palace, then the coffin will be moved to the Palace of Westminster.
• The funeral will take place at Westminster Abbey, where her body will then be buried in the castle’s King George VI Memorial Chapel, along with her husband, as she wished.
• The national mourning will end after the deposition of a handful of earth on the coffin by Prince Charles, his eldest son, the new ruler.

Prince Charles, heir to the throne

If anyone had hoped that the queen would go beyond the century and outlive her son, the unloved Prince Charles, to see Kate and William ascend the throne, it would not have been.

Charles being the direct heir of the queen, he succeeds her with, at his side, his wife, Camilla Parker Bowles, current princess of Wales and new queen consort. According to protocol, if Prince Charles were to disappear in turn, William, his eldest son, would succeed him.

As Maud Garmy, a journalist specializing in the British royal family and author of an interesting article published on Slate, says well “Operation London Bridge” or how the British media are preparing for the death of Elizabeth II :