For the next few weeks, the Mounted Guard duty here at Horse Guards will be passed to the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery. The soldiers are extremely visually distinctive from the Household Cavalry due to their black and gold uniforms and the black fur busbies they wear in place of helmets. You will usually find the King’s Troop firing the...

On 17 June 1815, just one day before the Battle of Waterloo, the 1st Life Guards hurled themselves into battle at the Belgian village of Genappe, fighting a savage rearguard action that rescued their comrades of the 7th Hussars and 23rd Light Dragoons from French lancers. Their timely intervention successfully threw back the French cavalry pursuing the Anglo-Allied army as...

The State Opening of Parliament is one of the most magnificent ceremonial occasions in the British calendar - and at its heart, the Household Cavalry play a central and historic role. Each year, as Parliament begins its new session, the Monarch travels in procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminster. It is the Household Cavalry who lead the way: over one...