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	The Queens Life Guard
		Horse Guards is named after the troops who have mounted the Queen's Life Guard on this spot since the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660.
		Horse Guards remains the official entrance to St James's and Buckingham Palace and this is why The Queen's Life Guard is still mounted here.
		As the New Guard arrives, each Guard carries the Standard and the Trumpeters of both Old and New Guards sound the Royal Salute on the arrival of the New Guard and on the departure of the Old Guard.
	www.army.mod.uk /ceremonialandheritage/household/queens_life_guard.htm (542 words)

	Horse Guards Parade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The catalyst for the clearing of the parade ground was the Provisional IRA's mortar attack on 10 Downing Street on 7 February 1991, which was carried out from a vehicle parked on the edge of Horse Guards Parade.
		The parade ground is open on the west side, where it faces Horse Guards Road and St.
		It is flanked on the north by the Old Admiralty and the Admiralty Citadel, on the east by Horse Guards — formerly the headquarters of the British Army — and on the south by HM Treasury and the back wall of 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the British Prime Minister.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Horse_Guards_Parade (353 words)

	Horse Guards (building) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Horse Guards is a large building in the Palladian style between Whitehall and Horse Guards Parade.
		Horse Guards subsequently became the headquarters of two major Army commands: the London District and the Household Cavalry.
		Horse Guards is always guarded by troopers of the Household Cavalry, both mounted and on foot; visiting the horses is popular with tourists.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Horse_Guards_(building) (248 words)

	Horseguards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Horse Guards parade stands on the tilt-yard of Whitehall Palace, which burned to the ground in 1698.
		Horse Guards, which is to your right when looking at the picture above, was built in 1750 (replacing earlier, smaller buildings) to hose the horse guards and some of the foot guards of the Household Regiments.
		This is a parade commemorative of the ancient military practice of parading flags and banners in front of the troops so that they were made familiar with the colours, later the emblems of regimental honour, around which they were to rally in the chaos of battle.
	www.geocities.com /robjan11/Horseguards.html (239 words)

	London Horse Guards Parade
		Horse Guards Parade is London's largest single open space, built in 1745 to house the old palace guards.
		Horse Guards Parade is also the setting for the Trooping of the Color.
		Horse Guards Parade is the setting for the impressive ceremony of Trooping the Color by the Queen's personal troops on her Majesty's official birthday.
	www.travellondon.com /templates/attractions/gallery_horseguard.html (293 words)

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		Dating back to 1745, it is named after the troops who have been the monarch's life guard on the site since the restoration of the monarchy in 1660.
		Horse Guards Parade is the venue, every hour, for one of London's most popular tourist attractions - the Changing of the Guard - as well as being the setting for the annual Trooping the Colour parade.
		When HM the Queen is in residence, the Queen's Life Guard consists of 15 men (including a trumpeter); when she is away, it drops to 12.
	www.london2012.org /en/bid/venues/venuelist/HorseGuardsParade.htm (184 words)

	Aussieinlondon: Horse Guards Parade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Eleven bells from the clock tower, a trumpet and the sound of horse's hooves on the pavement signal the change of the Guard at the Horse Guards Parade.
		Horse Guards Parade was built in 1745 to house the old palace guards.
		The troopers are on duty in Horse Guards Parade daily from 10am to 4pm and they change every hour at the strike of the clock.
	www.aussieinlondon.com /sparky/page.cfm?story_id=475 (183 words)

	Horse Guards \| Museum/Attraction Review \| London \| Frommers.com
		North of Downing Street, on the west side of Whitehall, is the building of the Horse Guards, which is the headquarters of the British Army.
		The real draw here is the Horse Guards themselves: the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, a combination of the oldest and most senior regiments in the British Army -- the Life Guards and the Blues and Royals.
		Life Guards wear red tunics and white plumes, and Blues and Royals are attired in blue tunics with red plumes.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/london/A24150.html (419 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Other Sport... \| Olympics 2012 \| London 2012 venue: Horse Guards Parade
		Horse Guards Parade in the heart of Westminster was built in 1745 to house Buckingham Palace's personal guards, known as the Queen's Life Guard.
		The Parade stages the Mounting of the Queen's Life Guard and on the Queen's official birthday in June the Trooping the Colour ceremony is a popular televised event.
		On the transport front, Horse Guards Parade is right in the heart of the city centre and is served by several train and bus routes.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/olympics_2004/olympics_2012/3403439.stm (221 words)

	Horse Guards Parade, Westminster - London - UK Attraction
		The Horse Guards Parade is indeed a very large and sandy square and was created in 1745 and was named after the soldiers who protected the King in 1660.
		The entrance of the building is guarded by 2 military men on their horses located on both side of the main entrance and two other ones standing on the other side of the building.
		The parade ground is in the heart of London and host the military parade which takes place once a year for the celebration of the Queen’s birthday celebration.
	www.ukattraction.com /london/horse-guards-parade.htm (181 words)

	Royal Insight > Out and About > Trooping the Colour
		The Prince of Wales - Colonel of the Welsh Guards - rode on horseback, as did The Princess Royal as Colonel of The Blues and Royals, and The Duke of Kent, Colonel of the Scots Guards.
		On Horse Guards Parade, footguards - mainly from the Household Division's Irish, Grenadier, Scots and Coldstream Guards - marched wearing their trademark bearskin hats and red tunics.
		During the ceremony the 1st Battalion of the Irish Guards also paraded their latest battle honour, which was won in Iraq.
	www.royal.gov.uk /OutPut/Page4189.asp (580 words)

	Horse Guards parade
		Gentlemen officers are ordered to strictly observe that in their companies during the parade none of the troopers are drunk, and if a drunken soldier does appear he will be fiercely punished, while the gentlemen officers will have to answer for it.
		While in this parade, the gentlemen officers will strictly see to it that their troops walk briskly shoulder to shoulder, in good order, with everyone looking to the right, and with legs moving evenly and strongly but without stamping.
		Also, there is to be no more than twelve paces between platoons while marching, and when platoons are brought up, they are to step off in good order.
	home.comcast.net /~markconrad/HorseGuards1741.htm (424 words)

	Trooping The Colour
		In London, the Foot Guards used to do this from 1755 onwards as part of their daily Guard Mounting on Horse Guards and the ceremonial of the modern Trooping the Colour parade is along similar lines.
		Trooping the Colour takes place in June each year to celebrate the official Birthday of the Sovereign and is carried out by her personal troops, the Household Division, on Horse Guards Parade, with the Queen herself attending and taking the salute.
		The parade begins with the Inspection, The Queen driving slowly down the ranks of all eight Guards and then past the Household Cavalry.
	www.trooping-the-colour.co.uk (369 words)

	Horse Guards Parade -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Horse Guards Parade is a large parade ground off (A wide street in London stretching from Trafalgar Square to the Houses of Parliament; site of many government offices) Whitehall in central (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London.
		The area has been used for a variety of reviews, parades and other ceremonies since the (additional info and facts about 17th century) 17th century.
		The parade ground is open on the west side, where it faces (additional info and facts about Horse Guards Road) Horse Guards Road and (additional info and facts about St. James's Park) St.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ho/horse_guards_parade.htm (162 words)

	Crew's Nest Trooping The Colour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The troops participating in the parade are the Household Division - composing of the Grenadier, Coldstream, Scots, Irish and Welsh Guards.
		The parade is based upon the ceremony used for guard mounting from Horse Guards Parade in London, in the early 18th century, and was first performed on the Sovereign's birthday for King George III in 1748.
		Until 1913 the King and a Prince would attend the guard mounting ceremony at Horse Guards accompanied by many visiting members of foreign royal families, the Army Council and other senior officers, and military attaches and members of the royal households.
	www.crewsnest.vispa.com /troopingthecolour.htm (292 words)

	Forums at the Society - Horse Guards Defeat Revolution
		As a true anticlimax, when the workers returned to Charing Cross Station for their giant, checked petition, they were informed, by a courteous, but firm, clerk that the petition had been classified by the magistrates as "an incentive to riot," and had been confiscated by Scotland Yard.
		The Duke of Beaufort, for example, was an officer in the Guards - I think in the "Blues." Certainly the aristocratic classes were well represented in the mess rooms of the cavalry regiments.
		But basically the Presidential Guard (during the Republic) and Franco's Moorish Guard (both were desendents of the Royal Guard, reinstated today) were the simbols of the Regime.
	www.militaryhorse.org /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3409 (2972 words)

	London Horse Guards - london information from 4london.info
		The elegant buildings of Horse Guards were designed by William Kent and completed in 1755.
		Horse Guards Parade is London's largest single open space.
		Built in 1745 to house the old palace guards, the Trooping the Colour, a magnificent military ceremony, takes place there on the Queen’s official birthday (June 6th).
	www.4london.info /londonhorseguards.htm (128 words)

	London Taxi Tour guide to the Changing Of The Guard.
		Soldiers from the Grenadiers, Coldstreams, Scots, Irish or Welsh Guards regiments, normally guard the palaces in London.
		Mounted troopers from the Blues and Royals or the Household Cavalry regiments normally guard the Whitehall entrance to Horse guards.
		At Horse guards parade or in Whitehall you can have your picture taken with the mounted Guards.
	www.londontaxitour.com /london-taxi-tour-sights-attractions-changing-of-guards.htm (208 words)

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		June 15: Her Majesty was present at The Queen’s Birthday Parade on Horse Guards Parade this morning at which The Queen’s Colour of the 1st Battalion Scots Guards was trooped.
		The Queen was accompanied by The Duke of Edinburgh (Colonel, Grenadier Guards), The Duke of Kent (Colonel, Scots Guards), The Prince of Wales (Colonel, Welsh Guards) and The Princess Royal (Colonel, The Blues and Royals, Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons, Gold Stick in Waiting).
		The Lord Vestey (Master of the Horse), Lieutenant Colonel Seymour Gilbart-Denham (Crown Equerry), Lieutenant Colonel Sir Malcolm Ross, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cartwright (Mounted Equerries in Waiting), Captain James Rous (Dismounted Equerry in Waiting) and Colonel Hamon Massey (The Blues and Royals, Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons, Silver Stick in Waiting) were in attendance.
	www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/3472/92780 (610 words)

	Horse Guards Parade photos and pictures
		This Horse Guards Parade image is part of the royalty free photos and pictures of London.
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	London II- Westminster - www.ezboard.com
		This impressive building opposite the Horse Guards Parade is the "Admiralty," which it appears to highlight by adding some kind of ship rigging to the top.
		Officially Horse Guards Road, I prefer to call this street the "avenue of the conquered" after the Commonwealth flags displayed along is length, supposedly celebrating the glorious indigenous democracy the British Empire helped to take root in...Zimbabwe?
		Horse Guards Parade is a vast expanse of grounds separated from Whitehall by this structure, which tourists delight in as it contains soldiers whose job it is to don 19th century uniforms and (literally) parade around on horses.
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	LondonTown.com \| London Ceremonies and Traditions
		During the 45-minute ceremony the New Guard replaces the Old Guard and a detachment is left at Buckingham Palace with the remaining New Guard marching on to St James's Palace.
		The Guard march from Hyde Park Corner, via Constitution Hill and the Mall to Horse Guards Parade.
		The Lord Mayor is required to swear an oath of loyalty to the Queen (in the presence of the Lord Chief Justice) at the end of the parade which runs from Guildhall to the Royal Courts of Justice.
	www.londontown.com /London/London_Ceremonies_and_Traditions (1524 words)

	Student Travel Information & Discounts - Events: Trooping the Colour (Horse Guards Parade, London, England)
		A parade of the Massed Bands and Troops of the Household Division (Foot Guards and Household Cavalry) takes over Horse Guards Parade, in Whitehall, to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Birthday.
		Crowds line the flag-filled royal road of The Mall to watch the gleaming cavalry divisions on their perfectly-groomed steeds parade up and down the roads around St James' Park.
		The Massed Bands pipe out jaunty, military tunes and the Queen herself can be glimpsed at the head of her troops giving her Royal wave to all and sundry.
	www.istc.org /sisp/index.htm?fx=event&event_id=16112 (228 words)

	George Downing and his Street
		The present Number 10 is made up of two houses joined together: Downing's cheap terrace house at the front, and a much grander building, overlooking Horse Guards Parade.
		The house on Horse Guards was built around 1677.
		At that point, the terrace on Downing Street and the house on Horse Guards began their association with the office of prime minister.
	www.number-10.gov.uk /output/page178.asp (720 words)

	Trooping the Colour Photos 11 June 2005 - HM The Queens Birthday - HM The Queen is Honorary Air Commodore to RAF Marham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This colourful military ceremony was carried out by troops from the Household Division (Foot Guards and Household Cavalry) on Horse Guards Parade in Whitehall, watched by The Queen, The Duke of Edinburgh, members of the Royal Family, invited guests and members of the public.
		The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh rode in a carriage, followed on horseback by HRH The Prince of Wales (Colonel, Welsh Guards), HRH The Princess Royal (Gold Stick in Waiting and Colonel, The Blues and Royals) and HRH The Duke of Kent (Colonel, Scots Guards).
		Also riding in the procession was The Master of the Horse, The Lord Vestey, and the Colonels of the Irish Guards, the Life Guards and the Coldstream Guards.
	www.rafmarham.co.uk /relations/stories-2005/trooping05 (562 words)

	Travelocity.com: Destination Guides: London
		North of Downing Street, on the west side of Whitehall, is the building of the Horse Guards, designed by William Kent, chief architect to George II, as the headquarters of the British Army.
		The real draw here is the Horse Guards themselves: Their unit is the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, which is a union of the two oldest and most senior regiments in the British Army: The Life Guards and the Blues and Royals.
		Beginning around 11am monday to Saturday and 10:30am on Sunday, a new guard leaves the Hyde Park Barracks, rides down Pall Mall, and arrives at the Horse Guards building, all in about 30 minutes.
	dest.travelocity.com /DestGuides/0,1840,TRAVELOCITY\|2480\|3\|1\|230237\|attraction_id\|29518,00.html (456 words)

	Guards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Also to the east is a large courtyard, Horse Guards Parade, where the annual Trooping of the Colour ceremony is held in the presence of the reigning monarch.
		The efforts of an unrecognized group of Congolese park guards have made the stunning turnaround possible.
		Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov was killed by his own guards 19:43 2005-04-04 Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov ordered his bodyguards to kill him to avoid being captured by federal forces, two Russian newspapers reported Monday.
	bonose.com /Guards-0.html (544 words)

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