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    emergency alarms and bells will go off TV and  radio stations will cut their programs the  

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    stock exchange will close sporting events will be  scrapped newsreaders will dress in black RAF will  

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    be grounded Parliament will be hastily reconvened  people will go home the whole country will come  

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    to a halt it will feel no less than a national  emergency and this all will begin with a single  

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    code phrase London Bridge is down it's been 66  years since the death of a monarch in Britain and  

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    accession of a new one King George the sixth died  in 1952 making Queen Elizabeth the second the new  

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    Queen and she has been holding the throne since  then at the age of 92 she's not only the longest  

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    reigning monarch in the history of Britain  but also the most loved one as well three of  

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    the last four prime ministers were born after she  came to the throne and most of the living world's  

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    population has only seen one Queen on the throne  for all of their life which makes her absence in  

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    unimaginable thought as the law of nature dictates  her reign must end with her unfortunate demise  

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    sometime in the future and when this happens this  will mark as the biggest event of the 21st century  

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    Britain will lose the last living link with  its former greatness and the country will use  

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    this occasion to revisit its glory once again the  royal palace has been preparing for this day since  

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    the 1960s under the codename of operation London  Bridge and there have been meetings several times  

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    a year behind closed doors to refine the details  the particulars of this grandest plan had remained  

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    a closely kept secret until Samnite a journalist  for The Guardian newspaper interviewed dozens of  

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    people involved with a promise of confidentiality  everything down to the last minute is carefully  

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    planned to give Queen Elizabeth a farewell the  kind of which the world has never seen and most  

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    probably will never see again so watch till the  end of the video and let me know your thoughts  

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    in the comment section below in her final hours  the Queen will be with her family and a team of  

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    doctors led by the Queen senior doctor professor  Hugh Thomas he'll constantly monitor her health  

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    and also consider what information should be  made public people will be notified about the  

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    Queen's health at a regular interval until the  last bulletin which may read something like this  

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    life is moving peacefully towards its close as it  happened in the case of George v George the fifths  

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    doctor then injected him with 750 milligrams of  morphine and a gram of cocaine enough to kill him  

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    twice over primarily to ease the monarch suffering  and give him a a peaceful quick death in time for  

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    printing presses of the times which rolled at  midnight it's expected the Queen's doctor will  

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    do the same the moment the Queen closes her eyes  Charles will be the new king the first official  

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    to get the news of the Queen's demise will be  the Queen's private secretary Edward young he  

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    will then pass on the information via a secure  phone line to the prime minister Theresa May  

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    the demise of George the sixth was conveyed in a  codeword Hyde Park Corner to prevent switchboard  

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    operators from finding out the civil servants  are expected to use the codeword London bridges  

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    down to convey the message the Foreign Office's  Global Response Center based at a secret location  

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    in London will communicate the news to the 15  governments outside the UK where the Queen is  

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    also the head of state and the 36 other nations  of the Commonwealth for whom she has served as  

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    a symbolic figurehead the governor's generals  ambassadors prime ministers and other important  

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    people in the country as well as those abroad will  be informed first through secure lines and it may  

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    take anywhere from some minutes to a few hours  before the news is made public and the rest of  

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    the world come to know about the demise of their  beloved Queen the Press Association news agency  

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    and all other global news wire services will be  informed simultaneously as a formal announcement  

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    a footman in morning clothes will emerge and post  a black edged notice to the gates of Buckingham  

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    Palace detail a 10-day mourning period that will  commence at the same time the palace website will  

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    be transformed into a single page showing the same  notice on a dark background at BBC a cold war-era  

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    alert system called rats short for radio alert  transmission system will be activated reporters  

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    and anchors had been rehearsing the death of the  Queen for over 30 years substituting the name mrs.  

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    Robinson for many years they have performed mock  story lines about the Queen Mother choking on a  

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    fish bone these rehearsals will be immediately  put into action BBC one two and four will be  

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    interrupted programmes will stop and after a pause  news will be broadcasted on all of them together  

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    the newsreaders will be wearing black suits and  black ties as they informed the world of this  

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    unfortunate event in a depressed voice this news  will be repeated several times with silent breaks  

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    in between after which BBC may go completely  silent for a few hours there is a network of blue  

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    lights called obut lights installed at Britain's  commercial radio stations they are supposed to be  

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    activated in the event of a national catastrophe  and are tested once a week when the news of the  

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    Queen's demise breaks these lights will start  flashing to alert the DJ's to switch to the news  

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    in a few minutes and play inoffensive music in the  meantime there is already a prepared list of music  

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    made up of two categories of sad and saddest songs  available at every radio station to reach for in  

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    times of sudden morning online media outlets and  newspapers already have news stories about the  

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    Queen's death lengthy obituaries and articles  lined up the publish at a moment's notice major  

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    news organizations like The Guardian and times  are said to have had as much as 10 to 12 days  

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    of coverage ready to go experts on royal matters  have already signed contracts with media houses to  

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    speak exclusively on those channels for those who  will be in the air aircraft pilots will announce  

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    the news to them and social media will do the  rest of the work great Tom at st. Paul's expected  

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    to ring every minute for several hours while some  others will sound four times equal to the Koreans  

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    age at her demise this will be the beginning  of ten days of sorrow and spectacle which are  

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    officially numbered as d-day d + 1 D plus 2 and so  on until d + 9 the 18th Duke of Norfolk will be in  

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    charge and Lord Chamberlain's office in the palace  will be the center of operations both houses of  

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    parliament will be called within hours of the  monarchs death people will go home early news  

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    crews will assemble on a pre agreed site outside  the palace they've got a confidential instruction  

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    book a couple of inches thick with every detail of  what to do and what not to do TV schedules for all  

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    coming days will be changed comedy shows will be  restricted on BBC and satire will go completely  

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    off air the national theater will close if the  news breaks before 4 p.m. if there's a Test match  

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    at Lord's it'll be scrapped the Marylebone Cricket  Club already holds insurance for that matter rugby  

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    and hockey fixtures will be called off - while  football matches may go ahead big screens will be  

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    erected in provincial cities so crowds can follow  events taking place in London mayors across the  

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    country will mask their decorations with black  flags messages will pour in from presidents and  

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    Parliament's from all over the world many nations  are expected to announce a several week mourning  

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    period for the Queen around 10,000 tickets will  be sent for printing for invited guests the first  

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    of which will be required for the proclamation  of the new king dignitaries coming from European  

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    royal families will be put up at the palace the  rest will stay at the Claridge's Hotel in the days  

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    that follow the announcement the Royal Mint will  begin producing new coins with the new monarchs  

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    image on them for issue upon accession despite  the plethora of planning's everything will have  

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    to be signed off by the new king and the Duke  of Norfolk the demise of the Queen will also be  

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    the moment of accession for a new monarch both  of these things will go hand in hand there will  

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    be diplomatic assembling in London not seen much  since the death of Winston Churchill in 1965 both  

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    houses will gather in peace and swear the oath of  allegiance to the new sovereign in the house of  

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    the Lord's the two Thrones will be replaced by  a single chair and in the evening Charles will  

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    make his first address as the head of state at  the same time the Queen's body will be prepared  

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    to be kept in the throne room the coffin lid  must have a false lid to hold the crown jewels  

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    with a rim at least three inches high everything  will be pre calculated and perfectly planned but  

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    what if the Queen dies abroad or when she is in  other parts of the country there's nothing to be  

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    foreseen in case of the Queen dying overseas a  jet aircraft from RIFs number 32 squadron known  

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    as the royal flight will take off from the western  ledge of london to bring her back with a coffin on  

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    board a first call coffin is always kept ready by  Royal Undertaker's in case of royal emergencies if  

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    she dies at Windsor Castle or Sandringham house  the coffin would be moved by car to Buckingham  

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    Palace within a couple of days the most elaborate  plans are for what happens if she passes away in  

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    Scotland where she spends three months of the  year this will initiate a complicated series of  

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    Scottish rituals and different cathedrals at the  end of which the coffin would be transported to  

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    Waverly station and then taken by the Royal train  to London people will line up to meet their Queen  

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    at railway stations and throw flowers a second  train will run behind the first one to clear  

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    flowers and debris off the railway tracks in  every scenario the Queen's body returns to the  

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    throne room in Buckingham Palace on d1 the day  after the Queen's demise the flags will go back  

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    up and at 11 a.m. Charles will be proclaimed  the king the entree room of st. James Palace  

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    he will carry out the first official duties of  his reign by swearing to protect the church in  

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    Scotland the national anthem will be played on  drums wrapped in black cloth and trumpeters from  

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    the Life Guards will step outside to give three  blasts the proclamations will only just be getting  

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    started Britain will be getting a new king for  the first time in 66 years and the world will be  

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    watching this will be the time Britain will show  its lost glory one more time there will be no  

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    fleet of bulletproof limousines and fancy cars on  the streets rather there will be horses carriages  

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    and men wearing cocked hats everywhere a group of  men dressed up as characters of some Shakespeare  

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    drama will go by carriage to the statue of Charles  the first and read out the news again a 41 gun  

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    salute will be fired from Hyde Park heralds with  trumpets will then go around spreading the news  

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    around the country high sheriffs will stand on  steps of town halls to announce the new sovereign  

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    as per local customs people will be capturing  a glimpse of the might of the British Empire  

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    in their latest smartphones things will be very  new to everyone even for the ones doing it this  

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    will be the time for Charles to go out and meet  his people a four-nation tour by the new king  

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    will immediately kick off he'll stop by places to  attend services for remembrance of his mother and  

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    meet the leaders of the nation lots of it will be  done walking around and not by being in a car on  

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    D for that is the fifth day of the Queen's demise  her coffin will be taken from the throne room in  

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    Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall to lie and  state for public viewing for four full days the  

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    procession from Buckingham Palace will be a huge  military parade expected to accommodate a million  

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    people on the streets of London it's planned  that the parade reaches Westminster Hall just  

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    on the hour so that the big bin starts to chime  as the come to a stop King Charles would be the  

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    first of an expected half a million mourners who  will pay homage to their beloved Queen a wondrous  

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    queue at least 9 kilometers long equipped with  canteens portable toilets and police will stream  

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    past the Queen for 23 hours a day four soldiers  will stand vigil for 20 minutes at a time with  

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    two ready and reserved the most senior of the  four will stand at the foot of the coffin while  

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    the most junior at the head an exact replica  of the hall will be set up somewhere nearby so  

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    soldiers can practice their movement before they  go on duty the Queen's children and grandchildren  

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    including women for the first time will arrive  unannounced and stand vigil over their coffin  

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    as per tradition the night before the funeral  there will have been church services in towns  

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    across the UK football stadiums will be open for  memorial services if necessary before the dawn on  

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    D 9 the funeral day the jewels will be taken off  the coffin and cleaned in the silent hall it'll be  

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    the day of great sorrow people will wake up to a  day off the stock market will not open shops will  

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    close or go to bank holiday hours and people will  display the picture of the Queen in their windows  

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    at 9 a.m. big bin will strike the bells hammer  will then be covered with a leather pad and it  

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    will ring out in muffled tones Queen Elizabeth the  second will be the first British monarch to have  

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    her funeral into Westminster Abbey since george ii  in 1760 at eleven o'clock the coffin will arrive  

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    at the abbey doors the country will fall silent  the clatter will stop train stations will cease  

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    announcements busses will stop drivers will get  out at the side of the road RAF will be grounded  

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    and time will come to a halt the archbishop will  speak inside the Abbey with 2,000 guests sitting  

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    broadcasters will refrain from showing royal faces  when the coffin emerges again it'll be placed on  

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    the green gun carrier and hauled by 138 junior  sailors of the Royal Navy from Hyde Park Corner  

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    the hearse will go 23 miles by Road to Windsor  Castle where the Queen's body will be buried the  

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    royal household will be waiting for their Queen  standing on the grass the coffin will go inside  

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    the cloister gates will close and cameras will  stop broadcasting this will be the end of an  

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    era this will be the start of a turbulence  the royalty will never be the same again

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The example sentences of LIMOUSINES in videos (3 in total of 3)

fleet noun, singular or mass of preposition or subordinating conjunction bulletproof noun, singular or mass limousines noun, plural and coordinating conjunction fancy adjective cars noun, plural on preposition or subordinating conjunction the determiner streets noun, plural rather adverb there existential there will modal be verb, base form horses noun, plural carriages noun, plural
royce proper noun, singular that wh-determiner was verb, past tense followed verb, past participle by preposition or subordinating conjunction 103 cardinal number limousines noun, plural and coordinating conjunction a determiner marching verb, gerund or present participle band noun, singular or mass led verb, past participle the determiner entire adjective thing noun, singular or mass that wh-determiner is verb, 3rd person singular present one cardinal number
four cardinal number seasons proper noun, singular perks noun, plural , maybe adverb not adverb limousines noun, plural like preposition or subordinating conjunction you personal pronoun see verb, non-3rd person singular present at preposition or subordinating conjunction the determiner top adjective three cardinal number level noun, singular or mass , but coordinating conjunction

Use "limousines" in a sentence | "limousines" example sentences

How to use "limousines" in a sentence?

  • [George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.
    -William J. Clinton-
  • Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.
    -Klaus Kinski-

Definition and meaning of LIMOUSINES

What does "limousines mean?"

/ˈliməˌzēn/

noun
large, luxurious car.
other
Luxurious long automobile.