Ceremony Of Changing The Guard At Buckingham Palace, London

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Ceremony Of Changing The Guard At Buckingham Palace, London

wolf 3 September 2008 10 Comments

Ceremony of changing the guard (Guard Mounting) in front of Buckingham Palace draws thousands of london visitors to watch everyday.
I love the music accompanied by a Guards band.

The Queen’s Guard usually consists of Foot Guards, in their traditional full-dress uniform of red tunics and bearskins. It said these handsome soldiers are drawn from five regiments of Foot Guards in the British Army: the Scots Guards, the Irish Guards, the Welsh Guards, the Grenadier Guards and the Coldstream Guards. Maybe that’s means “United Kingdom”.

The ceremony was accompanied by a Guards band. It’s said the music played ranges from traditional military marches, traditional national music to pop songs. I don’t know much about their traditional music, But I enjoy them.

There were only two sentries at the front of the Buckingham Palace that day, That means the Queen was not in residence, If she was there, there would be four sentries.

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The Guide Of London’s Ceremony Of Changing The Guard
Ceremony Of Changing The Guard At Horse Guards Parade, London

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Chris (Who am I?) said:

Yea, I’ve been one of those thousands of visitors to watch this. It is pretty exciting but the machine guns they carry instead of muskets kind of takes away a bit of the historical nostalgia.

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no image Wolf (Who am I?) reply on September 7th, 2008 3:32 pm:

I am quite agree with you, Chris.
It’s a traditional ceremony, it’s better if it can perform in real traditional way.

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# 3 September 2008 at 8:46 am

hitsu (Who am I?) said:

Oops.. I thought it’s Beckingham..lol

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no image Wolf (Who am I?) reply on September 7th, 2008 4:09 pm:

Yeah, But I am sorry that I haven’t taken a good photo of Buckingham Palace.

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# 3 September 2008 at 8:10 pm

Mark (Who am I?) said:

Some lovely photos of a great British tradition! If you ever get the chance, Trooping the colour is a spectacular event too! Every year it happens to celebrate the Queens birthday and there is lots of marching , music and parades.

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no image Wolf (Who am I?) reply on September 7th, 2008 3:43 pm:

Oh, my friend, I really hope I can have more chances to visit there, especially during the Queen’s birthday!
Yeah, I must work hard to earn more money for that.

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# 3 September 2008 at 9:48 pm

tahtimbo (Who am I?) said:

I missed the changing of the guard by only 15 minutes! I couldn’t believe it. I also just wanted to let you know that you have just received a most prestigious award. You can swing by my site to pick it up…the paparazzi are already there and waiting for you.

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no image Wolf (Who am I?) reply on September 7th, 2008 4:02 pm:

Dear tahtimbo: I was so glad to know that you love our travel blog.I must tell you that I {heart} Your Blog too!

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# 4 September 2008 at 10:05 am

Emm (Who am I?) said:

Did you hear the story about how animal rights campaigners met with Buckingham Palace to get the guards to stop wearing bear skin hats? I would never have thought in this day and age that the guards were wearing real fur. I think it’s horrible but on the same token I wouldn’t recommend that they wear synthetic fabrics!

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no image Wolf (Who am I?) reply on September 7th, 2008 4:16 pm:

Yes Emm, Take good care of animal on this planet is also take good care of ourselves.

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# 4 September 2008 at 10:37 pm