Timestamps:
2:41 The famous Changing of the Guards Ceremony at 3 pm.
8:50 "Don't touch the horse, please respect the sign!"
14:32 "May I pet the king's horse?" the tourist asked the horseman.
38:18 Special visitors with the female soldier at Horse Guards.
39:16 The gorgeous black horse brought the Boss for the Four O'clock Inspection Ceremony that is about to begin.
43:54 Tourist should show more respect and not inspect the soldier like that.
46:38 The Gatesman checks on the Horsemen, as he usually does every 15 minutes.
54:57 At the end of the day, the soldier tells the tourists to stand behind the bollards. They are getting ready for the famous Four O'clock Inspection Ceremony in the courtyard that happens every day at 4pm...
Why are the soldiers inspected every day at 4pm? Why is it called the Punishment Parade?
At 4pm every day in the courtyard on the Whitehall side of Horse Guards, a short ceremony takes place that brings an end to the sentry duties of the two mounted Household Cavalry in the sentry boxes.

The two troopers on horseback, along with six guards on foot, will form a line in the courtyard, where they are inspected by an officer in the regiment who will have ridden down from Knightsbridge Barracks by Hyde Park to do so. Once satisfied, the officer dismisses the troopers, ending the Mounted Guard’s duties for the day.

Informally known as the Punishment Parade, the tradition of the 4 o’clock inspection began in 1894. Queen Victoria arrived at Horse Guards, expecting to find the Household Cavalry ready and waiting to escort her back to Buckingham Palace, only to find the guards either asleep, drunk or gambling on the job! Deeply unamused by this, Victoria commanded that for the next 100 years, the guards be inspected every day at 4pm to ensure they were taking their duties seriously (hardly surprising she would wish that, given by 1894, there had been seven attempts on Victoria’s life). The century of punishment technically ended in 1994, but Queen Elizabeth II ordered the Household Cavalry to carry it on indefinitely as a regimental tradition, one that continues to this day.
59:41 The famous Four O'clock Inspection Ceremony. 

Date filmed: Today, 29 August 2024.

NFO:
The King’s Life Guard is conducted by soldiers of the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment at Horse Guards. Horse Guards is named after the troops who have mounted The King’s Life Guard here since the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660.

The ceremony has remained mostly unchanged for over 350 years.

Changing of The King's Life Guard
The ceremony of changing of the King’s Life Guard starts at 11am with the Old Guard formed up on Horse Guards Parade. As the New Guard arrives, a trumpeter sounds a royal salute and the officer salutes. The New Guard forms up facing the old one....

TIMINGS OF DUTIES

The Guard Change currently takes place on: Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 11am.

The two iconic soldiers on horses that mount duty on Whitehall at the entrance of Horse Guards change on the hour every hour from 10am until 4pm.

This ensures that, regardless of the time you choose to visit the museum, you are guaranteed a captivating spectacle of ceremonial duties in progress.

The King’s Life Guard is the name given to the guard duty performed by The Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment at Horse Guards. It dates from 1660 when The Life Guards mounted a permanent guard at the entrance to Whitehall Palace.

Responsibility for mounting the guard alternates between
The Life Guards and
The Blues and Royals.

An inspection at Hyde Park Barracks decides which ‘relief’ a soldier will do: the smartest will carry out his duty on his horse and the least well turned out will do longer duties on foot. The guard then rides to Horse Guards via Hyde Park Corner, Constitution Hill and The Mall.
- Information above is according to https://householdcavalry.co.uk/museum...

Click the link if you would like to know more about WHO THEY ARE.
The Household Cavalry Regiment. Trusted Guardians of the Monarch:
https://www.army.mod.uk/who-we-are/co...

If you would like to donate to HCF click the link: https://www.hcavfoundation.org/

- Have you ever visited the Household Cavalry Museum? Click the link to book your visit to the museum: https://householdcavalry.co.uk/museum...

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