And what if George is playing London Bridges?
About the dogs, I know she has loved them for decades. I wonder if their numbers are deliberately down because now the dogs could, in all likelihood, outliver her. Who would take the survivors?
Somehow I doubt you’d have a hard time finding someone to care for the queen’s pure bred dogs.
Or Jeff Bridges is playing Jack London?
Long Live the King!
Long Live the King!
Looks like the Queen takes after her great-parents. Edward VII and Queen Alexandra were known for their love of practical jokes. 
(Royalty history is fascinating. Everybody complains about Charles? He’s nothing compared to his ancestors!)
Build it up with wood and clay,
Wood and clay, wood and clay,
Build it up with wood and clay,
My fair lady.
I know it’s wrong, but I’m actually kind of looking forward to seeing all that. This must be how Prince Charles feels. I thought the line about Brexit was a unnecessary.
You think Prince Charles is looking forward to the death of his mother, a woman who is quite healthy for a person of her age and not in any pain as far as is understood by the public at large nor mentally infirm?
She has reportedly decided that she is getting too old to have puppies underfoot, since a fall at her age could be devastating.
She’s never had any difficulty offloading dogs. She’s a registered breeder; she passes dogs on all the time.
Smiths fan, huh?
There’s no future in this line of thought.
When is the part where they boink her on the head with a silver hammer to make sure that she is dead?
Ref this snip from the OP’s quote of the Guardian article:
I think the article has pretty well queered the value of that particular code phrase. Might be time for another one. 
I think the code word should be “Norwegian Blue”.
Beautiful plumage.
Regards,
Shodan
It strikes me that “Hyde Park Corner” was never a good code phrase in the first place, since that location is right outside the grounds of Buckingham Palace. Call the palace switchboard and declare “Hyde Park Corner” and they’ll probably say “what about Hyde Park Corner?” or “Sorry sir, you have the wrong number. This is Buckingham Palace.”
You missed the procedural process. Try this:
The King has just retired to the Choir Eternal. Somebody from his staff in attendance calls from the Palace or hospital or wherever he is/was to 10 Downing Street. And once connected to the PM or personal secretary or some such announces “Hyde Park Corner”.
The intent is to pass the news without tipping off the eavesdropping telephone operators you must assume exist.
In modern cyber-parlance you must always assume the enemy is listening to all comm channels all the time. The message is protected by some encryption. The message isn’t its own addressing process. What’s hard to prevent is the enemy learning at least the outlines of your actions by the shape of your addressing traffic. Since that has to be passed in the clear to serve its function of getting the message to the correct recipient.
Isn’t predicting or speaking of the king’s (or queen’s) death treason? I know Henry the 8ths doctors were unwilling to tell the king his prognosis due to that law.
I don’t think they said it directly to the operator but at the time when an operator had to connect each call manually they would often listen to the line in order to know when to clear the line (and for good gosip).