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EDINBURGH, Scotland—The
death of Queen Elizabeth II at her summer residence at Balmoral Castle has given Scotland an outsize role in Britain’s plans to mourn the monarch.
The queen’s journey back to London begins here Sunday, kicking off two days of elaborate ceremonies the sparsely populated nation would have missed had she died in England, where she spent most of her time. But her routine of summering in Scotland prompted royal officials to devise a contingency plan, code-named Operation Unicorn, in the event she died up north.
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