Operation Sant'Angelo Bridge

**has been the code name that referred to the plan of what will happen during and after the death of King Francis I of the Vatican. The plan was originally designed in the 1970s and is updated several times a year depending on the king's health. It involves planning by government departments, the Vatican Catholic Church, the Vatican Police, the Vatican Armed Forces, the media and the other states of the kingdom.Some critical decisions related to the plan were made by the king himself, although some only they can be taken by his successor (the current heir apparent is his son, Arthur, Prince of Rome), after his death.**

# ***The plan***

**The King's private secretary will be the first official (that is, not one of the King's relatives or part of a medical team) to convey the news. His first act will be to contact the prime minister, where officials will transmit the code phrase "Sant'Angelo has fallen" to the prime minister using secure phone lines. The Global Response Center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will be in charge of calling the embassies in other nations to lower the flags to half-mast as national mourning and the embassies will be in charge of informing the head of state of the nation in which is it so.**

**The media would be informed through an announcement to the three main television and radio networks through the Radio Alert Transmission System through a Black communications network. "Funeral lights" that will alert the presenters to play harmless music and prepare for a news flash, while all the television and radio networks in the country will transmit the main 3. The news will broadcast a pre-recorded sequence of portraits, during which the presenters on duty at that time will prepare for the formal announcement wearing dark clothing prepared for this purpose, there are 15 days of prepared programming and the speech that the presenters will give has been rehearsed by years.**

**In the time after the king's death, the heir to the throne would immediately become monarch and, although not crowned, would still be treated as the new sovereign. While the new monarch may choose to adopt his first baptismal name as his kingship name, he may also choose to choose a different kingship name; since any new monarch who ascends to the throne has the right to choose the name of his reign. In his first act as a new monarch, they will tour the state capital.**

**A footman would put a dark-edged sign on the doors of the Royal Palace in Rome. At the same time, the palace's website would display the same notice. The Congress of the Kingdom of the Vatican States was remembered. If possible, it would meet in a few hours and the prime minister would address congress. Government buildings will wave flags at half-staff and condolence books may be opened; Ceremonial ornaments, such as ceremonial clubs or council chains, must be kept in black wallets. The day after the king's death, the Council of Accession would meet in the Royal Palace in Rome to proclaim the new monarch. Congress would meet that night when Congressmen would swear allegiance to the new monarch.**

**Different arrangements are planned to move the king's coffin depending on where he dies. For example, if the king dies in one of the residences in Rome, he will drive to the Royal Palace in a couple of days. If the King died abroad, he would be taken by the Royal Protection Squad in the A380 to the Rome Air Base and then by car to the Royal Palace. If the king dies elsewhere in the kingdom he will be taken to the main castle of the state and from there transported to the main station where he will then be taken by the Royal Train to Rome. In all cases, the coffin would be taken to the Throne Room of the Palace of Rome. Four days after the death of the king, it would be transferred to the Sistine Chapel and would remain in state for four days. The state funeral would take place in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore nine days after the death of the king and the ceremony would be in charge of the pope, after which his body would be buried in a tomb prepared in the Basilica of San Pablo Extramuros where his family, prime minister, former prime ministers or people of great importance gave their farewell and a few words, where he would later rest next to his father and predecessors**