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Elizabeth II is Britain’s longest serving monarch, but at some point her reign will come to an end – and the outpouring of grief over her passing will be immense.
“It won t just be sombre dress and a minute of silence at sports games it ll be a punch to the gut of the national psyche,” says Business Insider.
While there is some level of uncertainty as to what will actually happen in the immediate aftermath of her death, some aspects have been meticulously planned.
What is Operation London Bridge?
The first plans for the Queen’s death, codenamed ‘London Bridge’, have been in place since the 1960s, but were refined around the turn of the century.
Godfrey Hodgson obituary John Shirley
The journalist and historian Godfrey Hodgson, who has died aged 86, was among the most perceptive and industrious observers of his generation, particularly in the field of American society and politics.
His reputation was founded on his landmark study, America in Our Time: From World War II to Nixon (1976), acknowledged by the Cambridge historian Gary Gerstle as “one of the great works of political and social history written in the past half century”. At 600 pages long and in continuous print since its first publication, it was but one item in a prolific output that ran to more than 15 books, extensive university teaching and a lifetime of newspaper and television reporting (as well as numerous Guardian obituaries). As a journalist, Hodgson reckoned he had worked in 48 of the 50 US states.
How I found the Lockerbie bomber : Victim s brother pored over CIA cables, travelled to Libya and met an assassin before giving suspect s name to the FBI - now US is set to charge him
US prosecutors are set to charge Abu Agila Mas ud with making the bomb that blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 - killing 259 people
Charges against Mas ud stem from an investigation carried out by Ken Dornstein
Dornstein s older brother, David, then 25, was one of those killed on the flight
Ken spent six years and $350,000 tracking down Mas ud, who is thought to be serving 10 years in a Libyan jail for being Gaddafi s master bomb-maker
The US is set to unseal charges against a Libyan man suspected of assembling the bomb which killed 270 when it was detonated during a Pan Am flight over Scotland 32 years ago.
The downing of Pan Am flight 103, travelling from London to New York on December 21, 1988, killed hundreds of people over Lockerbie in Britain s largest terrorist atrocity.
Former Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who was found guilty in 2001 of mass murder and jailed for life with a minimum term of 27 years, was the only person convicted of the attack.
But now, the US Justice Department is expected to unseal a criminal complaint against Abu Agila Mohammad Masud, who is currently held by Libyan authorities.