{"id":117138,"date":"2024-06-11T12:07:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T19:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=117138"},"modified":"2024-06-11T12:07:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T19:07:20","slug":"the-security-terms-and-phrases-used-by-the-british-royal-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/the-security-terms-and-phrases-used-by-the-british-royal-family\/","title":{"rendered":"The security terms and phrases used by the British royal family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the intention of going unnoticed during public events or ceremonies of great relevance, the <strong>British Royal Family<\/strong> uses <strong>security <\/strong>terms and phrases that allow them to safeguard their identity; these are some of the most commonly used by members of the monarchy in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<strong>Sharon<\/strong>&#8216; was the pseudonym acquired by the late <strong>Queen Elizabeth II<\/strong> for certain circumstances; however, her husband, Prince Philip, referred to her as &#8216;<strong>cabbage<\/strong>&#8216;; likewise, Princess Diana chose a code name for her son <strong>William<\/strong> &#8216;<strong>Wombat<\/strong>&#8216; and used it during a tour in Australia.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-117165\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Check-the-code-words-and-phrases-of-the-royal-family.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Check-the-code-words-and-phrases-of-the-royal-family.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Check-the-code-words-and-phrases-of-the-royal-family-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Check-the-code-words-and-phrases-of-the-royal-family-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Check-the-code-words-and-phrases-of-the-royal-family-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays,<strong> King Charles III<\/strong> and <strong>Queen Camilla<\/strong> refer to each other as &#8216;<strong>Fred<\/strong>&#8216; and &#8216;<strong>Gladys<\/strong>&#8216;, and they themselves revealed it was related to the old radio comedy series &#8216;The Goon Show&#8217;. It is important for royals to have a code word when sending a message that must be very private.<\/p>\n<p>The perfect example would be &#8216;<strong>London Bridge is down<\/strong>&#8216;, the term used by <strong>Sir Edward Young<\/strong>, the Queen&#8217;s private secretary, to discreetly announce the death of Elizabeth II and set in motion Operation London Bridge with the <strong>BBC<\/strong>&#8216;s detailed protocol on what to do in such a situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the intention of going unnoticed during public events or ceremonies of great relevance, the British Royal Family uses security terms and phrases that allow them to safeguard their identity; these are some of the most commonly used by members of the monarchy in recent years. &#8216;Sharon&#8216; was the pseudonym acquired by the late Queen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":117166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,1795],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-117138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-royal-family"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}