by Morley Evans
THE HOUSHOLD CAVALRY
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| photo by By Sgt. Adrian Harlen, Ministry of Defense photographer |
LIFE GUARDS AND BLUES AND ROYALS
The British Household Cavalry is classed as a corps in its own right, and consists of two regiments: the Life Guards and the Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons). They are the senior regular regiments in the British Army, with traditions dating from 1660, and act as the Queen's personal bodyguard. They are guards regiments and, with the five foot guard regiments, help constitute the seven guards regiments of the Household Division. 
These soldiers take their job of guarding Her Majesty very seriously. The tank is on hand just in case it is ever needed. More are nearby. Long Live The Queen.
HISTORY MAY RECORD that the crowning achievement of the long life of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was the Commonwealth which she tirelessly nurtured with decades of quiet behind-the-scenes diplomacy while the British Empire's rogue child ran the world into the ground. The Commonweath is not the British Commonwealth. It is not the British Empire either. Its 53 member-states are joined by the kindness and patience of the Queen herself. Even nations like Pakistan and India who have fought four wars are members. Countries are lined up to join. Long Live The Queen. She created a commonwealth.
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