The mounted Blues and Royals trooper discreetly relaxed a rule Janine Henni is a Royals Staff Writer for PEOPLE Digital, covering modern monarchies and the world's most famous families.

It crowns the best turned out trooper from the two most senior regiments in the British Army. The Life Guards and the Blues and Royals, locked in a rivalry stretching back to the Restoration of ...

Trooper Tilly Bishop tells PEOPLE she was ... The Life Guards, a unit that originally protected Charles II, and the Blues and Royals, the army of Oliver Cromwell, both date back to the 1600s.

Kate, who missed last year’s event during the period she was receiving cancer treatment, watched the procession of Ladies and ...

The route was lined by troopers on foot from the Household Cavalry's Life Guards and Blues and Royals. They wore plumed helmets and carried swords. Hundreds of spectators lined the procession ...

It crowns the best turned out trooper from the two most senior regiments in the British Army. The Life Guards and the Blues and Royals, locked in a rivalry stretching back to the Restoration of King ...