Emergency meeting called at Buckingham Palace in London

[CARIIS]

Above dateline JANUARY 8, 20176:25AM

I don't know about this


The monarch’s ill health has interrupted her attendance at services and occasions throughout the Christmas and New Year’s period. The Palace’s last statement on the issue was released last Sunday when it confirmed Queen Elizabeth II would not be attending last week’s service.
“The Queen does not yet feel ready to attend church as she is still recuperating from a heavy cold,” the statement read.

Servants will be addressed by the Royal Household’s most senior officer Lord Chamberlain and Her Majesty’s Private Secretary Sir Christopher Geidt in just hours.
The meeting, called suddenly and described as highly unusual by royal watchers, has sent Britain’s rumour mill into a concerned frenzy.

insert grain of salt?

The Mirror reports that even the most trusted of staff have been left in the cold as to what the meeting will be about.


Both the Queen and Prince Philip appeared in good health today - Her Majesty meeting Teresa May and Prince Philip at Lords Cricket Ground
[video=twitter;859966247831691264]https://twitter.com/tomsteinfort/status/859966247831691264[/video]

http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...s/news-story/a35797e9d4ed199e6e52fb4909dc8a50



http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...e/news-story/f4713452396863eff2dc2a4dc7997215

 

[LaneGirl]

It's not a stupid question at all. I am assuming hundreds work there but actually live there? No clue.

Anyone?

I'm seeing 188 staff bedrooms.

https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/sites/default/files/Buckingham_Palace_Fact_Sheet.pdf

 

[Tricia]

Did they put this protocol in place when the Queen Mum died? Queen Elizabeth's mother. I think she was 101 when she died in 2002.

I don't remember this protocol at all. Doesn't mean it hasn't been implemented a thousand times. That's how bad my memory is these days.

 

[CARIIS]

I'm trying to think back to how Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother's deaths were announced. I remember the night Princess Diana died in 1997 like yesterday my mum was absolutely devastated like a member of our own family had died.

CARIIS only the Queen and Prince Philip live at Buckingham Palace, most of the family live at Kensington Palace and Prince Charles lives at Clarence House but they have other country homes and palaces too.

Oh I remember Diana profoundly

In this day and age this is super strange

 

[CARIIS]

Buckingham Palace has 775 rooms. These include 19 State rooms, 52 Royal and guest bedrooms, 188 staff bedrooms, 92 offices and 78 bathrooms.... can't actually find a number on how many actually live there.

Wow they need 188 staff --

I would be a thrilled with a maid 1x per week!

 

[Meryl12]

All members of the royal family have a permanent "suite" there. How often they stay and use their suite is up to them.
There are about 100 members in the royal family.
Other high ranking dignitaries are also allocated a suite in Buckingham Palace.
To answer your question - probably an average of about 80 to 100 people could sleep there (other than staff).
I read this when Princess Diana's divorce went through and she lost her suite at Buckingham Palace even though she was still the Princess of Wales.
The information may have changed about the actual number of family member in the Royal Family but that was the information in 1997 at the time of her divorce.

 

[Tricia]

This is interesting: This paragraph is toward the end of the article

The secret code is “London Bridge is down”, which kicks off Operation London Bridge, the plan to alert the world of her death.
None of the detail listed an emergency meeting of all royal staff being called at Buckingham Palace.
It did explain that the world would be informed quickly.
After the prime minister is alerted, the Foreign Office’s Global Response Centre would inform the 15 governments where the Queen is still head of state, including Australia, Canada, the Bahamas and Belize.

http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...y/news-story/a14395facc4cb671b73a905c131e4cdc

The protocol is implemented when there is a significant announcement.

That's all I know folks and it ain't' much

 

[gregjrichards]

Did they put this protocol in place when the Queen Mum died? Queen Elizabeth's mother. I think she was 101 when she died in 2002.

I don't remember this protocol at all. Doesn't mean it hasn't been implemented a thousand times. That's how bad my memory is these days.

From 2002

"The Queen Mother has died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 101, with her daughter at her bedside.

She passed away at Royal Lodge, Windsor, at 1515 GMT on Saturday, and the news was announced by Buckingham Palace about two and a half hours later."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/622457.stm

I think the same 8 am protocol applied to a death at night. However the Queen Mother died in the afternoon and her passing was announced late afternoon that day.

 

[wfgodot]

Regardless of what this turns out to be, or not to have been, the Guardian's recent long read about royal protocol is well worth your time:

'London Bridge is down': the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death

 

[AntonPhibes]

Did they put this protocol in place when the Queen Mum died? Queen Elizabeth's mother. I think she was 101 when she died in 2002.

I don't remember this protocol at all. Doesn't mean it hasn't been implemented a thousand times. That's how bad my memory is these days.

Seems they interrupted regular programming to announce the Queen Mother's death (doesn't really suggest when the Palace announced it though?)

[video=youtube;UkuQMCpaKGI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkuQMCpaKGI[/video]

 

[Tricia]

The only one saying it is not the death of the Queen or the Prince is New Zeland.

Wouldn't that be ironic if, after all the powerful media outlets keep talking about a possible death, the New Zeland paper is spot on?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe...mergency-meeting-at-Buckingham-Palace-reports

 

[CARIIS]

But if we think about the way it was worded it was all staff I

I dont know if they would say all staff family friends habe been called to ....but it just struck me that there seems to be like a focus on "staff"

 

[LaneGirl]

If you are calling your ENTIRE staff back it sound like a death or some sort of change like an abdicutaion to me.

 

[AntonPhibes]

The Queen is sending Charles as a kamikaze to North Korea?

 

[LaneGirl]

The only one saying it is not the death of the Queen or the Prince is New Zeland.

Wouldn't that be ironic if, after all the powerful media outlets keep talking about a possible death, the New Zeland paper is spot on?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe...mergency-meeting-at-Buckingham-Palace-reports

It is interesting that the BBC is quiet.

ETA - spelling

 

[Copper]

If it's a death, I imagine it's either one of the oldest or youngest Royals, someone who could go missing and not be immediately missed by the press like William, Harry, or the York girls. The Duke of Edinburgh is a good guess. But I am also thinking of, Heaven forbid, a child or maybe a lost pregnancy.

 

[CARIIS]

It just occurred to me why this "feels" so peculiar, have any of us ever experienced gwaitin ffor news

That is backward for us - were usually on within minutes beating CNN and everyone!

I am not a good waiter in any context

 

[gregjrichards]

It is interesting that the BBC is quiet.

ETA - spelling

The BBC aren't allowed to report anything until 8am there would be serious consequences from Buckingham Palace if they did.

 

[shana]

Not to make light of it, but I doubt that the death of an unborn would generate this sort of response.

~jmo~

 

[CARIIS]

It is interesting that the BBC is quiet.

ETA - spelling

So is sky news

Maybe it is different for TV compared to print- it's in print