"Very Few Know The History of The Queens Guard, " Topic
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Tango01 | 02 May 2019 4:04 p.m. PST |
….Goes Back to 15th Century "Millions of tourists who flock to Buckingham Palace to see the famous changing of the guard, or guard mounting ceremony, are awed by the pageantry, but few really know the history of this time-honored tradition.
Selected soldiers have protected Britain's monarch since the reign of Henry VII (1485-1509), but it was not until 1689 that the genesis of the modern ceremony began at the outset of the reign of William III and Mary II…." Main page link
Amicalement Armand |
Frederick | 02 May 2019 5:15 p.m. PST |
Interesting time line but the Grenadier Guards did not start wearing bearskins to make them more menacing – they got them (and their name) as an honorific after Waterloo |
Tango01 | 03 May 2019 11:20 a.m. PST |
You are right my friend…. Amicalement Armand
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