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Originally Posted by Jimbuna
I wonder if there is a bunker underneath the palace...a coal bunker even  |
Wouldn't make much difference, with the amount of sunshine that London would have got even a deep level bunker would be in trouble. It would essentially be a tomb for whoever was in it, it would be inaccessible for many many months after the explosions.
IIRC, in the likelihood of war with the Pact the monarchy would have been evacuated to a cabinet bunker (probably the Corsham bunker) and then flown out to Canada, presumably as soon as bullets started flying across the East/West German border.
Personally, I doubt she would have left London, not willingly anyway.
We had some good plans for preparing for 'The Big One' but all of them depended upon us getting decent warning that a war was about to take place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_to_war
Heck, Jim, you may well remember some of those plans, you'd have been on the very thin end of the wedge post-bomb, guarding food depots and putting down looters. Grim times.