What's on
Discover the Household Cavalry Museum. Explore our events and combine your visit to the Household Cavalry Museum with one of the daily parades.
Tours
Guided Tour of Museum
Sat 17th May 2025
10:00 am
- 11:30 am
Step into the heart of British history with an exclusive, guided tour of the Household Cavalry Museum.
Family fun
Mini Troopers: Marvellous Medals
Mon 26th May 2025
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Wed 28th May 2025
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Fri 30th May 2025
11:30 am
- 1:00 pm
Looking for a fun and creative way to keep the kids entertained this May half term? Join us at the Household Cavalry Museum for our Marvellous Medals craft activity and exciting Children’s Medal Trail!
Special Events
Brigade Major’s Review
Thu 29th May 2025
9:30 am
- 12:30 pm
We are offering a limited number of tickets to the Trooping the Colour rehearsal.
Daily Ceremonies at Horse Guards
Combine your visit to the Household Cavalry Museum with one of the daily parades.
Daily Ceremony
The King’s Life Guard
Monday
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Wednesday
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Friday
11:00 am
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.
Daily Ceremony
4 O’Clock Inspection
Every day
4:00 pm
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.
