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The Grenadier Guards (GREN GDS) is the most senior infantry regiment of the British Army, being at the top of the Infantry Order of Precedence. It can trace its lineage back to 1656 when Lord Wentworth's Regiment was raised in Bruges to protect the exiled Charles II . [ 2 ]
1659 [raised as a Parliamentary life guard for attending the Council of State]. Nov 1659 re-modelled as Monck's Life Guards; 1660-1661 3rd (The Duke of Albemarle's) Troop of Horse Guards. 1661-1670 3rd (The Lord General's) Troop of Horse Guards. 1670-1788 2nd (The Queen's) Troop of Horse Guards. 1788 absorbed 4th Troop, The Horse Guards.
The grenadiers attached to The Queen's Troop of Horse Guards and The Duke of York's Troop of Horse Guards had no drummers, two sergeants and two corporals, and only sixty privates per troop. [2] Apparently no grenadiers were raised for the 4th Troop then extant.
Queen Camilla replaced Prince Andrew, Duke of York as colonel of the Grenadier Guards, while Prince William became colonel of the Welsh Guards. The Princess of Wales took her husband's former role as colonel of the Irish Guards [5] The Duke of Edinburgh rode in his capacity as colonel of the London Guards, a reserve regiment formed in May 2022. [6]
Grenadier Guards – The British Grenadiers (Quick); Scipio (Slow), The Duke of York (Slow) Coldstream Guards – Milanollo (Quick); Figaro (Slow) Scots Guards – Hielan' Laddie (Quick); The Garb of Old Gaul (Slow) Irish Guards – St Patrick's Day (Quick); Let Erin Remember (Slow) Welsh Guards – Rising of the Lark (Quick); Men of Harlech (Slow)
The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies – 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [26]; The Death or Glory Boys – 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers [1] [3] (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory")
The Duke of York, in his role as colonel of the Grenadier Guards, at a memorial in Bruges in 2019 (Jonathan Brady/PA) ... The Duke of York pub in Fitzrovia in central London bears an image of ...
The Grenadier battalion of Guards, the 3rd Regiment of Guards and the 2nd battalion 5th Regiment which had been previously detached to march upon Schoorldam to keep up the communication with Sir James Pulteney, were joined by the remainder of the column, which, after taking Warmenhuizen, had been reinforced by the 1st battalion 5th Regiment ...