FRANNY tell Him we all wish Him well

We are glad you enjoy it - you have anything similar back in the states?

Nope, nothing this cool!

@@MrStoney61 You should come to London this summer and enjoy it. Happens every June. Would you come over to visit and see our ceremonial?

I really would love too John, but at 71 and on a real fixed income I'm afraid that would be a remote chance. I've always loved the UK.

@@MrStoney61 Trooping the Colour is broadcast live around the world, if you are prepared to get up early you could enjoy it live in early June.

I hope you're right

@@Anglisc1682 þat wæs góð cyning

Yes wish they all die with it.

John Willetts and not being rude the sun shines out of their arses

All very true. But the Thin Red Line always was and is the Highland Regiments.

The Highlanders. Men in kilts from a country famed for its thistles. Balls of steel.

Fantastic! Well Done You! I have searched over last two days endeavouring to find the title to 7:49 march. I always thought it British seeing it's played so much during GB's annual traditional military event in front of HM The Queen's 'Trooping The Colour' - Many thanks.

Thanh Le and our soldiers are VOLUNTEERS

Thanh Le and they are all VOLUNTEERS

They are active duty units the weapons are real and loaded and they really do guard the Queen and palace. They are not just a show for the tourists

@@Hotspur37 That is a fact. Their weapons are the current front line battle rifle, not ceremonial antiques, and the bayonets are sharp. You will never see household Regiments holding bayonets at rest, as American ceremonial units (3rd Army Division and MarBks DC) often do. The readiness to fight for HM is part and parcel of existence, even as you look at the first official day of the Coldstream Guard. They were volunteers who armed to protect their monarch from revolt, and as soon as it was over, they laid down their arms, showing their absolute good will. He ordered them to take them up again, dubbing them the Cold-Streame Guards, forever to be his protectors. So have all the Household Regiments been, ever since. May it never change.

Look up the Canadian Airforce units that went over last year to participate in guarding the Queen

Yes, but you get to see Bigfoot!

Lennert Schreel you are a very clever person with excellent taste

Andre Joshua Mahinay Bahian the thing is that people don’t realise HER MAJESTY still has one

I wish we could JUST LISTEN to the music and watch without all the gab???

Grant Fisher go on chavvy!

Grant Fisher what a fine figure you’ll cut coz they are the mutts nuts innit! You have to say that innit because it makes some stuffed shirts get on their high horse even though it’s just a figure of speech! Good luck

You think that's bad, 120000 went from Australia during WW1 and only one came back.

@@danielgrunter3636 I prefer Liechtenstein numbers where 80 people went to war and 81 came back because they made a friend along the way.

A bunch that were still alive after the war simply weren't needed so they were sold to the french to eat

Winston Chuchill got those back.

I think it's just the name they give for Cameron Men. Cracking rendition

Ferdinand Liem The horses had a virus, I believe, and were having Tender Loving Care in their stalls. 🐎

+Shah hery Queen Elizabeth's March.

Sounds like "Bonnie Dundee" but when it comes to pipe bands my musical ear is lacking!

The Blues and royals, formerly known as the Royal horse guards

Mark Andrew The Life Guards descend from gentlemen who went to France with King Charles II after the Royalists lost the Civil War and protected him. Many had fought for King Charles I under Prince Rupert. The Blues & Royals descend from the other side, Cromwell’s ‘Iron Horse’. At the Restoration, they surrendered to King Charles II and were taken into his service. Ceremonially, the two form the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, based at Hyde Park Barracks, London. Operational duties are carried out by the Household Cavalry Regiment, based at Combermere Barracks, Windsor. These include reconnaissance behind enemy lines, flying drones (not at Gatwick, though!), forward air control, and so on. They use light scout tanks and a variety of smaller armoured vehicles but not main battle tanks. I remember the occasion about 70 years ago when Chinese invading Hong Kong were kept at bay in a narrow place by a squadron of Household Cavalry in armoured cars.

Mark Andrew Operationally, they form the Household Cavalry Regiment, which carries out reconnaissance behind enemy lines. Troopers usually do two years at a time, turn and turn about.

Old comrades

apparently Trumps on it, but no one will ever match the Brits when it comes to pomp and ceremony.

Mattis, Sec of Defense, is jerking around Trump and dodging it. Bureaucrats and our own American apologists take turns why we shouldn't do it ($92,000,000 supposedly or next week they'll tell you such parades are un-American). Bullshit.

cogidubnus1953 oThe problem with that kind of remark, apart from its general unpleasantness, is that the office of POTUSA includes being Head of State. It’s one thing insulting the ignorant and repulsive Trump as a person or even as Head of Government but in ceremonial or symbolic matters you are insulting the US people through the Head of State.

Got to learn to march first lol

Got to learn to march first

It's a slow march, with the emphasis on slow.

Depends on which regiment is marching, standard pace is 116 beats per minute with a 30-inch step, with variations for individual regiments, British light infantry and rifle regiments, for example, march at 140 beats per minute, Highland regiments march at 112 bpm (except when wearing kilts, when it is 80). You then have slow march and the double. Also depends upon the tempo of the music.