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The Times is said to have 11 days of coverage ready to go. At the Guardian, the deputy editor has a list of prepared stories pinned to his wall. вЂњWhenever there is a strange noise in the newsroom, someone always asks, вЂIs that the Rats?вЂ™ Because we donвЂ™t know what it sounds like,вЂќ one regional reporter told me.ДЄll news organisations will scramble to get films on air and obituaries online. Most staff have only ever seen it work in tests many have never seen it work at all. Rats, which is also sometimes referred to as вЂњroyal about to snuff itвЂќ, is a near mythical part of the intricate architecture of ritual and rehearsals for the death of major royal personalities that the BBC has maintained since the 1930s. At the BBC, the вЂњradio alert transmission systemвЂќ (Rats), will be activated вЂ“ a cold war-era alarm designed to withstand an attack on the nationвЂ™s infrastructure. While he does this, the palace website will be transformed into a sombre, single page, showing the same text on a dark background. At the same instant, a footman in mourning clothes will emerge from a door at Buckingham Palace, cross the dull pink gravel and pin a black-edged notice to the gates. When the Queen dies, the announcement will go out as a newsflash to the Press Association and the rest of the worldвЂ™s media simultaneously. For many years the BBC was told about royal deaths first, but its monopoly on broadcasting to the empire has gone now. When Princess Diana died at 4am local time at the PitiГ©-SalpГЄtriГЁre hospital in Paris on 31 August 1997, journalists accompanying the former foreign secretary, Robin Cook, on a visit to the Philippines knew within 15 minutes. The BBC did not broadcast the news until 11.15am, almost four hours later. On 6 February 1952, George VI was found by his valet at Sandringham at 7.30am. The rest of us will find out more quickly than before. Cupboards will be opened in search of black armbands, three-and-a-quarter inches wide, to be worn on the left arm. Governors general, ambassadors and prime ministers will learn first. The information will travel like the compressional wave ahead of an earthquake, detectable only by special equipment. From the Foreign OfficeвЂ™s Global Response Centre, at an undisclosed location in the capital, the news will go out to the 15 governments outside the UK where the Queen is also the head of state, and the 36 other nations of the Commonwealth for whom she has served as a symbolic figurehead вЂ“ a face familiar in dreams and the untidy drawings of a billion schoolchildren вЂ“ since the dawn of the atomic age.ДЇor a time, she will be gone without our knowing it. For Elizabeth II, the plan for what happens next is known as вЂњLondon Bridge.вЂќ The prime minister will be woken, if she is not already awake, and civil servants will say вЂњLondon Bridge is downвЂќ on secure lines.

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The last time a British monarch died, 65 years ago, the demise of George VI was conveyed in a code word, вЂњHyde Park CornerвЂќ, to Buckingham Palace, to prevent switchboard operators from finding out. The first official to deal with the news will be Sir Christopher Geidt, the QueenвЂ™s private secretary, a former diplomat who was given a second knighthood in 2014, in part for planning her succession. Her eyes will be closed and Charles will be king. Not long afterwards, Dawson injected the king with 750mg of morphine and a gram of cocaine вЂ“ enough to kill him twice over вЂ“ in order to ease the monarchвЂ™s suffering, and to have him expire in time for the printing presses of the Times, which rolled at midnight.

вЂњThe KingвЂ™s life is moving peacefully towards its close,вЂќ was the final notice issued by George VвЂ™s doctor, Lord Dawson, at 9.30pm on the night of 20 January 1936.

вЂњThe Queen is suffering from great physical prostration, accompanied by symptoms which cause much anxiety,вЂќ announced Sir James Reid, Queen VictoriaвЂ™s physician, two days before her death in 1901. There will be bulletins from the palace вЂ“ not many, but enough. A nationвЂ™s life becomes a personвЂ™s, and then the string must break. The bond between sovereign and subjects is a strange and mostly unknowable thing. He will look after his patient, control access to her room and consider what information should be made public. In these last hours, the QueenвЂ™s senior doctor, a gastroenterologist named Professor Huw Thomas, will be in charge. When the Queen Mother passed away on the afternoon of Easter Saturday, in 2002, at the Royal Lodge in Windsor, she had time to telephone friends to say goodbye, and to give away some of her horses. I n the plans that exist for the death of the Queen вЂ“ and there are many versions, held by Buckingham Palace, the government and the BBC вЂ“ most envisage that she will die after a short illness.