Ceremony Of Changing The Guard At Buckingham Palace, London
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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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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Wolf 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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Oops.. I thought it’s Beckingham..lol
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Wolf 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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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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Wolf 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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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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Wolf reply on September 7th, 2008 4:02 pm:
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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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Wolf 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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They do not carry machine guns; they carry the SA80 L85A2 IW. It is an automatic Rifle (5.56mm) and is the standerd Indervidual Weapon (Rifle) used in training and combat by the Brittish Army and Royal Marines. Some soldiers may carry the SA80 L86A2 LSW (or Light Support Weapon), which is now used as a ’sharp-shooters’ weapon, or the minimi LMG (FN Minimi) in both para(L110A1) and standerd(L108A1) varients. The American version of the Minimi LMG was known as the M249 SAW (Squad Automatic Weapon), but now it is also called a Light Machine Gun (M249 LMG).
There is also another version of the SA80 used by Cadet Forces: the L98A1 (note it was introduced in the nignties; not eighties, and is still version 1; not 2), this weapon is almost identical to the L85A1 IW (the old Standerd Rifle, main diference is the cocking-handle), but it does not contain gas-parts, or a fire select switch, and can only fire manualy (cock for each shot), wearas the L85/L86 can fire both semi-automatic and automatic.
The final variant of the SA80 is the L22 Carbine (L22A2/L22A1).
hope this helps.
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