Senior British officials employed in the Prime Minister’s office at 10 Downing Street, during the past year, made a communication plan to release the news of the death of Larry the cat, a pet in the British Prime Minister’s residence.
The document for Larry the cat is known under the code name “Larry’s Bridges”, a poignant reference to the code names of the detailed preparations for public announcements of the deaths of senior members of the royal family, reports the Times of London.
The planning for the death of Queen Elizabeth II was known by the code name Operation London Bridge, while the plans to announce the death of King Charles are called Operation Menay Bridge, after the suspension bridge built in 1826 over the Menay Strait in Wales.
Like a monarch from the world of pets, Larry was a long-term resident of the Palace of Westminster, and was brought to Downing Street during the tenure of Prime Minister David Cameron and declared then “in charge of mice”.
Larry the cat stayed in Downing Street after Prime Minister Cameron and his family moved out, and since then he has been permanently staying in the Prime Minister’s residence, although many British Prime Ministers – Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak – had to leave it.
An unnamed Times source confirmed that the “Larry Bridges” plan was designed to “announce his death to the world.”
“We felt that this matter had to be handled delicately,” a source told the London daily, B92 reports.
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