Buckingham Palace Guards or Queens
Guards
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Buckingham Palace Guards
The Palace Guards or Queen’s
Guards serve as security or lookout persons
for the 19-state room Buckingham Palace,
which is open to visitor from August to
September. This happens when the Queen is on
her annual visit to Balmoral.
Inside the Palace are fascinatingly English
and French-furnished state rooms, sheltering
the Royal family treasures. This includes
paintings by maestros such as Rembrandt,
Rubens, Poussin and Canaletto. Adding up the
interior are the Palace Ballroom that boasts
the luxuriously-decorated horseshoe-shaped
table and the silver gilt from the
Grand service used in 1811 on one of George
III’s birthdays. Completing the luxurious
lifestyle are the basins, jeweled cups,
chased dishes, sconces, shields and ivory
tankards.
Every 11:30, the palace guards in the
forecourt of Buckingham Palace are
religiously changed. This ritual, which
lasts about 45 minutes, happens every day in
summer, every other day in winter.
In the Changing of Guard ceremony, the New
Guard marches to the Palace from Wellington
Barracks. The Old Guard hands over and the
sentries are changed and then returns to
barracks. This is the sign when the New
Guard will march to the St James's Palace,
with the new guard taking over at the
Buckingham Palace.
