The Queens Life Guard is found from the Mounted Squadrons of the Household Cavalry Regiment stationed at Hyde Park Barracks.  One squadron is found from soldiers of the Life Guards and the other from those of the Blues and Royals.  Squadrons alternate daily.  The Guard is normally commanded by an Officer, who has with him a Squadron Corporal carrying the Standard and a trumpeter on a grey house.  On arrival of the new guard and on the departure of the old guard, the trumpeter...

sounds a Royal Salute.  The Officer of the guard inspects the guard daily at 4pm.  When Her Majesty the Queen is out of London the guard is reduced in strength and is commanded by a Non Commissioned Officer without Standard or trumpeter.  On these occasions an Officer rides down from Hyde Park Barracks to carry the inspections at 4pm.  The Queens Life Guard has mounted here over the old Palace of Whitehall...

Continuously for 200 years, except for a period of five years during the 1939-1945 War.  One of the duties of the sentries is to allow those persons who have Her Majesty's permission to drive through the Horse Guards Arch.  Such persons are required to show an ivory pass specially issued for this purpose.

 

The Women Of World War II Memorial.

The local hang out while I stayed at Crystal Palace.

Tourist Entrance to Westminster Abbey.

 

Trafalgar Square - London, England - commemorates the Battle of Trafalgar (1805), a British naval victory of the Napoleonic Wars.

 

The National Gallery at Trafalgar Square - London, England - commemorates the Battle of Trafalgar (1805), a British naval victory of the Napoleonic Wars.

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View from steps of The National Gallery at Trafalgar Square - London, England.

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View from steps of The National Gallery at Trafalgar Square - London, England.

View from steps of The National Gallery at Trafalgar Square - London, England.

Admiralty Arch - London, England.

Piccadilly Circus - London, England.

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Statue of 'Eros' at Piccadilly Circus - London, England.

Leicester Square (pronounced "Lester Square") is a pedestrians square in the West End of London.

Piccadilly Circus - London, England.

The oldest Pub in London - Ye Olde Chesire Cheese.

Some of the artwork in Ye Olde Chesire Cheese.

Having a pint at Ye Olde Chesire Cheese.

Dining arrangements at Ye Olde Chesire Cheese.

All the Monarchs that Ye Olde Chesire Cheese has survived.

St. Pauls Cathedral from West.

Tower Bridge - London, England.

Tower Bridge - London, England.

Tower of London across the River Thames.