Operation London Bridge (GT Mini)

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

True Crime, Unknown, Paranormal, Weird History, Social Sciences, History, Science

3.7 • 928 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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The funeral and mourning arrangement for Queen Elizabeth II was set in motion as early as the 1960s. More Ghost Town: https://www.ghosttownpod.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/ghosttownpod Instagram: https;//www.instagram.com/ghosttownpod Sources: https://bit.ly/3L0x86U Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Long live the Queen. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leib. And this is Ghost Town.
0:22.0	This is an ABC News special report. So we are coming on the air with somber news from Buckingham Palace.
0:28.8	Queen Elizabeth II has died. On Ghost Town, we rarely do kind of timely episodes, episodes that
0:35.1	feel like current events, like sometimes we'll do, you know, a documentary review. But when it feels
0:41.0	so new, it feels much more raw and less able to process and get the perspective of history.
0:48.0	Now, today I'm changing that. It is September 8th, the day before you're usually scheduled
0:53.6	Ghost Town. And actually I had a whole juicy Friday about dbc boxes for you. But I had to change
0:59.8	that because I love royal history and just saw online that a statement from Buckingham Palace came
1:05.9	out. And then as I was recording this episode, I found out that Queen Elizabeth II has passed away.
1:15.1	Now the press release that I read maybe an hour ago said that the Queen's doctors are concerned
1:21.3	for her majesty's health and have recommended she remain under medical supervision.
1:25.9	The Queen remains comfortable at Belmoral. Now I've been meaning to do an episode on what happens
1:31.1	when the Queen dies. And I don't know, it just felt like it was finally time, a little dark I know,
1:39.6	but but really fascinating. The monarchy is this profoundly efficient machine that works on checks
1:47.2	and balances of rules and hierarchy. And it's what Queen Elizabeth loved. It's what she thrived on.
1:53.2	It is truly incredible. So it's kind of memorializing her in this whole process. So today we're
2:00.4	talking about the series of carefully constructed plans that happen, that will happen, that is happening
2:07.3	currently when Queen Elizabeth II dies, a process called Operation London Bridge. Operation London
2:16.5	Bridge, also known by its codename London Bridge, is down, has been in place since the 1960s.
2:22.3	Yes, back when the Queen was merely in her 40s, and it is a guide for how the monarchy will play out
2:28.5	the next hours and days, the 10 days following the Queen's death. Some decisions within the plan
2:35.6	have been made by the Queen herself at different points in her life, and some have been made by her
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