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The Royal Guard Brigade is based in Amman. Its members are largely recruited from the most loyal Bedouin tribes of the east bank of Jordan. It is not to be confused with the king's Circassian Bodyguard who, though part of the Special Royal Guard Command, are a separate unit primarily assigned to ceremonial duties within the interior of Jordan's various Royal palaces.
A royal guard or the palace guard, is a group of military bodyguards, soldiers or armed retainers responsible for the protection of a royal family member, such as a king or queen, or prince or princess.
Gentlemen at Arms marching alongside the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, as part of the procession following her funeral. Today, the duties are purely ceremonial: the Gentlemen accompany and attend the sovereign at various events and occasions, including state visits by heads of state, the opening of parliament, and ceremonies involving the various orders of chivalry, including the Order of the ...
The Body Guard was formally disbanded in 1791, although this aristocratic body had already dispersed when the royal family had been forced to leave Versailles in October 1789. This left the Swiss Guard as the last remaining unit of the old Maison du Roi, although a short-lived Garde Constitutionelle du Roi was raised on 16 March 1792.
The Royal Guards still exist down to the present and serve as protectors of the royal family of Thailand. [4] [5] On 18 January 2019, the unit has renamed to 1st Royal Guard Regiment, King's Guard. [6] Then, on 23 April 2019, The unit has renamed again to 1st Infantry Regiment, King's Close Bodyguard. [7]
Queen Elizabeth I's grandfather, King Henry VII, is Queen Elizabeth II's 12-times great-grandfather, connecting them through the broader royal lineage. Universal History Archive/Getty Queen ...
The Life Guards and the Blues and Royals, locked in a rivalry stretching back to the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660, each put forward six challengers to compete for eight places at the ...
The Royal Guard Command was temporarily under the command of the Chongnongsa (Commander-in-Chief), but in December 1628, immediately after the Jingbi War, their number increased to 5,000, and they became a separate unit as a Chong (headquarters), with the Royal Guard General (Commander of the Royal Guard Command) at its pinnacle, establishing a ...