The Changing of the Guard is perhaps the most famous royal ceremony in England. which is very popular among tourists from all over the world. It is absolutely free to attend the changing of the guard. To do this, you just need to know where and when it will happen.
The colorful ceremony, reminiscent of a theatrical performance, takes place in several places in London. However, the most famous event is the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace. Summer (starting from May) it takes place daily and starts at 11:30, in winter, the changing of the guard can be seen every two days at the same time. The traditional changing of the guard at Windsor Castle takes place at 11:00 every day from April to August, and every other day in the winter months.
The ceremony lasts about 45 minutes. The music of the orchestra, the bright red uniform, the tall black caps and the polished movements of the soldiers make the action extraordinarily exciting and interesting. The essence of the ceremony itself is to replace the royal guard. the best way to watch the action is standing near the fence itself or at the Victoria Memorial. However, there is another possibility: to come at 11:15 to the castle of St. James, from where a new change of guards leaves and where the changed guards return later. 
Key Ceremony at the Tower is one of the most popular royal ceremonies. Despite the fact that it has been repeated every evening for 700 years, it is quite difficult to get on it. You can attend the ceremony for free, but You have to sign up for 2-3 months. Every evening, at exactly 21:53, the Chief Yeoman Warder, in his traditional Tudor attire, comes to the gate with his retinue. Towards the yeomanry guard moving beefeaters (beefeaters), servants of the Tower, dressed, in turn, in a different uniform.
The Head of the Guard and the Keeper of the Keys locks the main gates himself, however, in front of the gates to the famous Bloody Tower, he is traditionally stopped by the sentry, shouting his usual: “Stop, who is coming?”. The answer is "Keys". "Whose keys?" "Keys of Queen Elizabeth". “Come in, keys of Queen Elizabeth, all is calm,” is the answer, after which the yeoman guard passes through the arch. This is an ongoing procedure, which is all the more necessary since the Tower houses the treasures and relics of the British Crown.
To get to the Ceremony, you need to send request (at least two months in advance) to the following address:
Ceremony of the Keys Office
Tower of London
LONDON, EC3N 4AB Great Britain
The letter must contain:
names of all participants (moreover, from the beginning of April to the end of October - the maximum group size is 6 people, and the rest of the time - 15),
2 dates that suit you,
a self-addressed envelope with enough international IRC coupons. Tickets will be mailed to you. 
Opening of Parliament. Another formal and solemn event that has not changed for centuries and has a symbolic meaning for the British crown is the annual opening of the session of Parliament. It happens in October or November. On the day of the ceremony, the Queen arrives in Westminster from Buckingham Palace in a government carriage. She is traditionally accompanied by a horse guard. Before the arrival of the queen, the cellars of the Palace of Westminster are carefully inspected by the palace guards. This has been the case since 1605, when an attempt was made to blow up the building. The rest of the ceremony remains the same. The gestures, sequence of events, clothing and ritual speeches are repeated year after year, symbolizing the permanence of royalty. 
Award Ceremony is a special day when the Queen, Prince of Wales or Princess present awards. About 25 awards take place annually. Most of them are held in the Ballroom of Buckingham Palace, however, sometimes the ceremony takes place at Edinburgh Palace, Windsor Castle, or even outside the United Kingdom. Each candidate is allowed to bring up to 3 guests to the awards ceremony to watch the ceremony from the hall. The ceremony itself lasts about an hour, which the queen must spend standing.
The awards ceremony also includes knighthood. This action has not changed for many centuries. Those honored with a knighthood must kneel before the Queen, who consecrates a knight using the sword of her father, King George VI. 
The banner-carrying ceremony is one of the most pompous royal traditions. United Kingdom. Today, this ceremony marks the official celebration of the Monarch's birthday, which, regardless of the actual date of birth, celebrated on the second Saturday in June.
The tradition has its roots in the early 17th century, during the reign of King Charles II. At that time, the banners were taken out in front of the regiment so that each soldier would remember the colors. After all, during the battle, everyone had to see and recognize the banner of their regiment. In 1748, the banner removal ceremony was timed to coincide with the celebration of the royal birthday. However, during the reign of George IV, the tradition became annual and acquired a fixed date. June was not chosen by chance, because the weather at this time is perfect for lavish celebrations.
Queen Elizabeth has taken part in the Trooping the Color ceremony for 58 years in a row. Each year, one of the royal regiments is honored with the removal of the banner. Until 1987, the queen led the parade of troops on horseback, dressed in the uniform of this regiment, now Elizabeth conducts the traditional inspection of the troops and greets those gathered from her carriage. The removal of the banner is a grandiose event in its scale. It is broadcast by TV channels all over the world. This is a bright action, which, like all British traditions, is characterized by orderliness and pomposity. This is another ceremony symbolizing the unity and strength of the British monarchy.
The ceremony itself takes place on the Parade of the Horse Guards, where more than 1400 officers and soldiers, 200 horses, 400 musicians go from Buckingham Palace through The Mall Park. At exactly 11 a.m., the queen accepts greetings and begins the traditional inspection of the troops. You can watch the banner removal ceremony from The Mall park or standing at the fence of St James Park. 
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Denis Baiguzhin in the program "Live" told about how he gives women in marriage to wealthy men.
The well-known marriage coach Denis Baiguzhin visited the studio of the Live broadcast program.
He calls himself the "wedding king" and assures that he can teach any woman how to find a millionaire husband.
His courses are called "How to find and subdue an oligarch?". They are expensive, but there is no release from those who wish.
According to Baiguzhin, he made over 2,000 females happy by marrying them off to millionaires.
To weak men, Baiguzhin says, he treats him like "rogue bastards".
He explained his thought: “If a man earns 20 thousand rubles, can he earn 23 if he strains? And if he earns 50, can he earn 53? Maybe! If he strains. The main problem of a speech therapist is that he does not want to invest. He does not work He doesn't study...
And he marries his clients to strong men - capable of providing them with a decent, comfortable life.
Marry an oligah: lessons from the "wedding king". Live (03/31/2016)
Denis Baiguzhin has no special education.
Until 2005, he worked in law enforcement agencies. Then he quit and opened the Silver Bullet detective agency.
In 2010, Baiguzhin promised a Muscovite help in extracting her ex-husband from her apartment, took 190 thousand rubles for his services and tried to hide. He was detained at the Kursk railway station in Moscow and sentenced to a year in a colony-settlement.
In 2014, the prosecutor's office of Chelyabinsk checked him because of the organization of a "naked master class", after which complaints from several of his former students followed - the courses did not help them in any way in finding and conquering a millionaire man.
Baiguzhin himself describes the essence of his work as follows: to teach women how to find and conquer a worthy man, build harmonious relationships with him and a strong family.
He calls his method "School of integrated development of the modern woman". The program includes everything - from advice on self-care, style and image to elements of the psychology of relationships, raising self-esteem and even training intimate muscles and developing sexual prowess.
Denis Baiguzhin
He promotes the idea that a woman should find herself a rich, confident and strong man with money, get everything she wants from him, and in return - fully satisfy his sexual needs and fantasies.
"A woman on planet Earth should live only at the expense of a man. Not work herself at three jobs, but live off worthy men. And it works. But for this you need to get rid of your stinking pride. I kill fucking emancipation and crush feminism. You know why? Because feminism fucks you!...You know why you don't date men? Because your main problem is your contraceptive face!", - Baiguzhin says to women at psychological marriage training.
In his own reasoning, the psychologist adheres to extremely traditionalist views on relationships: the main virtues of women, in his opinion, are femininity and tenderness, while men at the same time must do everything for them in exchange for beauty, homeliness and sex.
0 April 28, 2011, 02:33 PMWhat a magical phrase - "royal wedding"! .. In the minds of millions of girls around the world, this is a real fairy tale with white horse-drawn carriages, beautiful bouquets, hundreds of guests, a veil embroidered with pearls and a huge train of a luxurious dress. And with a noble handsome prince, of course. Or even a king.
At real royal weddings, all these fabulous fantasies are absolutely real. True, as a rule, with the exception of the excellent external data of princes and kings.
On the eve of the most high-profile royal wedding of the beginning of the 21st century - Prince William and Kate Middleton will finally get married on April 29 - we decided to recall the most spectacular ceremonies of the past decades. Of course, there were more of them than you will see here, but such splendor is enough to stock up on impressions before William and Kate exchange vows.
One of the most scandalous marriages of monarchs took place in the first half of the last century: in order to marry his beloved Wallis Simpson, an American woman who had two divorces behind her back, the king of Great Britain Edward VIII abdicated from the throne.
They met in 1931 and began dating in 1934. In January 1936, Edward was crowned, but, realizing that his marriage to Wallis would not gain him popularity among the people (especially since the Archbishop of Canterbury opposed her), already in December he signed the abdication. In a radio address to the nation, Edward admitted that it would be simply unthinkable for him to govern the state without the support of his beloved woman.
The Duke of Windsor (this title was bestowed on the elder brother by King George VI who ascended the throne) and Wallis Simpson were married on June 3, 1937 at the Château de Cande in France. They lived together until Edward's death in May 1972.
Wallis Simpson and the Duke of Windsor, former King of Great Britain
Edward VIII (June 3, 1937)
FROM Prince Philip, son of Prince Andrew of Greece (great-great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria), heir to the British throne a princess Elizabeth met when she was 13. Eight years later, on November 20, 1947, they got married in Westminster Abbey. The prince received the title of Duke of Edinburgh, Elizabeth five years later was proclaimed queen. They have been together for 63 years.
Sketch of Princess Elizabeth's wedding dress
Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip at Westminster
abbey (November 20, 1947)
Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip
Princess Elizabeth
Oscar-winning actress' wedding Grace Kelly And Prince Rainier III of Monaco sometimes called the wedding of the century.
The beautiful blonde and noble monarch met when Grace arrived in Europe in 1955 to shoot Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief. They fell in love and a few months later they got married: on April 18, 1956, a civil ceremony took place, and the next day in the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Monaco, a religious one.
Grace, who became a princess after giving up her film career, wore a gorgeous gown designed by MGM film designer Helen Rose. This outfit, according to the unanimous opinion of fashion critics, is the most elegant wedding dress in history. It was sewn by 30 seamstresses and took more than a kilometer of taffeta, and antique Belgian lace and pearls were used in the decoration.
Prince Rainier III of Monaco and Grace Kelly on the day of the civil ceremony (April 18, 1956)
Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly arrives at Saint Nicholas Cathedral in Monaco (April 19
1956)
Daughter of Prince Paul of Greece, princess Sofia married in her homeland, in Athens: on May 14, 1962, her wedding took place with the prince Juan Carlos, son of Count Juan of Barcelona and heir to the Spanish throne. Then no one was sure that Juan Carlos and Sofia were really destined to become king and queen, but in 1975, after the death of dictator Francisco Franco, the couple moved to the royal palace in Madrid.
Prince Juan Carlos and Princess Sofia at the wedding ceremony (May 14, 1962)
Eldest daughter of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III of Monaco princess caroline married for the first time on June 29, 1978. Her chosen one was a French banker and playboy Philippe Junot. Their marriage was unhappy and lasted only two years, but their wedding is still considered one of the most high-profile royal ceremonies of the last century.
Princess Caroline of Monaco and Philippe Dunod (June 29, 1978)
Prince Rainier III of Monaco with the bride and groom
Wedding Diana Spencer and heir to the British throne Prince of Wales Charles along with the wedding of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III of Monaco, it is considered one of the most magnificent royal ceremonies of our time.
The Earl Spencer's daughter and the Crown Prince met at a major charity event and were married on July 29, 1981 at St. Paul's Cathedral. Two and a half thousand guests attended the wedding, and more than 600 thousand people greeted the wedding cortege on the streets of London. Another 700 million watched the ceremony on television.
Diana looked just magical. To create her dress (which, by the way, had two exact copies - just in case), designers Elizabeth and David Emmanuel needed more than forty meters of silk. The bodice and puffy skirt were trimmed with old English lace, and the head of the future "Queen of Human Hearts" was crowned with a luxurious diamond tiara, a family jewel of the Spencer family.
The union of Charles and Diana was unsuccessful and broke up in 1992, and a divorce followed four years later.
Wedding cortege (July 29, 1981)
Prince Charles and Diana Spencer
Princess Diana, Prince Charles of Wales and Queen Elizabeth II
Princess Diana
European royal wedding traditions are also reflected in the Japanese wedding ceremony. Crown Prince Naruhito and daughter of a high-ranking diplomat Masako Owada.
For the first time, the future spouses met in 1986 at the "bride", a reception in honor of the Spanish Infanta Elena, at which the heir had to choose a bride from more than 30 invited girls. According to other information, they met before. Be that as it may, at this evening Naruhito fell in love with Masako and decided to seek reciprocity. However, due to the fact that the potential bride's grandfather was the chairman of a corporation responsible for an environmental disaster that resulted in loss of life, Masako was not considered a good match for the heir. He persisted in proposing after proposition, however, until she finally agreed.
Naruhito and Masako got married on June 9, 1993.
Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako on their wedding day in Tokyo (June 9, 1993)
Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako
Ambitious and beautiful middle class Palestinian girl Rania Al Abdullah And Prince Abdullah of Jordan met in the spring of 1993 in one of the banks in Amman. It took them little time to realize that they were made for each other: their wedding took place on June 10, 1993. In 1999, Abdullah II ascended the throne, and Rania became his queen.
Rania Al-Abdullah and Prince Abdullah (June 10, 1993)
On the evening news anchor's engagement Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano And Prince Felipe of Asturias was unexpectedly announced in November 2003. The wedding of the heir and his chosen one took place on May 22, 2004 in the Madrid Cathedral of Santa Maria la Real de la Almudena. The wedding was broadcast to the whole world and, according to approximate data, about one and a half billion viewers watched the ceremony.
Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano and Crown Prince Felipe
Very soon, on May 19, the wedding ceremony of Prince Harry and his bride Meghan Markle will take place in St. George's Chapel. Thousands of Britons will gather on the streets of Windsor to see the happy newlyweds. Millions of people around the world will be watching the ceremony on TV or online.
In contrast to this Internet era wedding (the second in a row after William and Kate), we can recall how 125 years ago in 1893 the future King George V married Princess Mary of Teck: the couple were married in the small royal chapel of St. palace, where 100 guests could hardly fit.
And although at different times the weddings of members of the royal family took place in different ways, some rules never change, because the British royal family has always remained a stronghold of traditionalism. Let's take a look at some of these unchanging wedding traditions.
Welsh gold wedding rings
Left: Sarah, Duchess of York's wedding ring, engagement ring and signet ring. Right: Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, April 2011
For more than 80 years, there has been a tradition of casting wedding rings for members of the royal family from Welsh gold. For the first time, such a bride's engagement ring was used on April 26, 1923 at the wedding of the future King George VI and Queen Mother Elizabeth. Since then, Welsh gold has become a constant companion of all royal ceremonies in the UK.
Wedding rings of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, Princess Anne Royal, Princess Diana of Wales, Sarah, Duchess of York, as well as the Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, are made of Welsh gold. It uses only metal from the mine of St. David in Wales. Gold was mined there during the Roman occupation of Britain, but in the 80s of the last century, its production was stopped.
Very little of the original Welsh gold remains. Fortunately, in November 1981, the Royal British Legion presented Elizabeth II with a 26-gram bar of 875-carat Welsh gold, which is used exclusively for casting wedding rings of members of the royal family.
What kind of rings Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will have, it will become known only on their wedding day.
sprig of myrtle in the bride's bouquet
This 1960 painting by John Phillip depicts the wedding of Queen Victoria's eldest daughter in 1858.
According to tradition, in the bouquet of a bride from the royal family, there must be branches of myrtle from the summer residence - the house of the Osbornes from the Isle of Wight in the English Channel. Why exactly myrtle? The British call it the plant of love, and the myrtle flowers symbolize innocence, happy marriage and fertility.
For the first time, branches of this evergreen shrub appeared in the wedding bouquet of Queen Victoria in 1840. After the wedding ceremony, Victoria planted myrtle in her garden on the Isle of Wight, where it grows to this day. Myrtle branches from the Isle of Wight have been present in royal brides' bouquets since 1858. However, instead of traditionally throwing a bouquet at a crowd of unmarried friends, Meghan Markle will traditionally lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Westminster Abbey in London.
Bouquet at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Nearly 100 years ago, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the late mother of the now reigning Queen Elizabeth II, started another royal family wedding tradition. On her wedding day in Westminster Abbey, she laid her bridal bouquet on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. In this way, she honored not only the memory of all the British soldiers who died in the First World War, but also her own brother Fergus, who died in 1915 at the Battle of Loos.
On her wedding day, April 26, 1923, Lady Elizabeth became the first bride to walk down the aisle without a bouquet in her hands, having laid flowers on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier before entering the church. Since then, royal brides in Britain have taken their bridal bouquet to the monument, but they do it after the wedding ceremony.
Formal wedding portraits
Wedding portrait of King George V and Princess Mary of Teck, 1893
Another tradition of royal weddings is the formal photo session, usually held between the marriage ceremony and the wedding reception.
The first British monarch to have an official wedding portrait taken was King Edward VII, Prince of Wales. When he married Alexandra, Princess of Denmark, sister of Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia, on March 10, 1863, numerous photographers attended the ceremony. The official black-and-white photographs were then colorized to look like pictorial portraits.
At the beginning of the 20th century, postcards with portraits of members of the royal family became popular, which the public began to massively collect. This is how formal wedding portraits got a new life. For example, the photo above is one of the exhibits in the collection of photographs, postcards and documents, which belongs to Miss Anya Gordon, a former maid of the royal residence.
As for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, they chose Alexey Lubomirsky, one of the most sought-after and stylish fashion photographers of our time, as their wedding photographer. Born in England, half-Peruvian and half-Polish, Lubomirski has already photographed the couple for their official engagement portraits.
Orange blossom (orange flowers)
Queen Victoria in a wedding dress (portrait by Winterhalter) and a brooch, a gift from her fiancé
At the wedding with Prince Albert on April 10, 1840, Queen Victoria did not wear a tiara: her head was decorated with a wreath with orange blossom, flowers of an orange tree (wild orange), a symbol of purity.
For the wedding, Prince Albert gave the bride a brooch in the form of an orange blossom sprig with gold leaves and white porcelain flowers, and later continued to give Victoria jewelry in this style. Eventually, from 1839 to 1846, a beautiful parure (a set of jewelry) was assembled, consisting of a brooch with matching earrings and a headdress given as a wedding anniversary gift.
It was thanks to Queen Victoria that the orange blossom and white dress of the bride became an invariable attribute of every traditional wedding. In the Victorian era, all princesses walked down the aisle with orange blossom in their wedding dress. This tradition continued into the 20th century: when Elizabeth II married in 1947, her ivory satin wedding dress was embroidered with pearls and crystals in the form of bouquets of orange blossom, jasmine and white rose of York, which were combined with ears of wheat, symbolizing fertility.
In a week, the whole of Britain will celebrate the wedding - Prince Harry has chosen actress Meghan Markle as his bride. It remains a mystery what her dress will look like. But royal ceremonies, among other things, set the tone for fashion. Let's take a look at some of the brightest of these events.
Lady Diana Spencer shortly before becoming Princess of Wales. Her dress was first seen when the bridesmaids straightened the train upon arrival at St. Paul's Cathedral. The wedding ceremony with Prince Charles took place in London in July 1981 
Diana's son, Britain's Prince William, and his fiancee Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, pose for an official photo with the bridesmaids and page boys. Photo taken in the throne room of Buckingham Palace, central London, April 2011 
Prince Albert II of Monaco and Princess Charlene leave the palace after their wedding ceremony. July 2011 
Swedish Prince Carl Philip and Sophia Hellqvist at the Royal Church in Stockholm. June 2015 
Britain's Prince Charles and his longtime love, the Duchess of Cornwall, pose on the steps of St George's Chapel at Windsor Palace. A modest wedding ceremony took place in April 2005 
Crown Prince Abdullah of Jordan with his Palestinian-Jordanian bride Rania al-Yasin during a wedding ceremony at the Royal Palace in Amman, June 1993 
Newlyweds Crown Prince Naruhito and his wife Masako. Japan, June 1993 
Luxembourg Crown Grand Duke Guillaume and his fiancée, Countess Stephanie de Lannoy, wave to the city hall where a civil ceremony was held in October 2012 
Britain's Queen Elizabeth's eldest granddaughter, Zara Phillips, and her husband Michael Tindall, captain of the English rugby team, leave the church after their wedding at the Canongate Church in Edinburgh. Scotland, July 2011 
Smiling French actress Clotilde Courau walks arm in arm with her new husband, Emanuel Filiberto of Savoy, grandson of Italy's last king. The ceremony took place in the Roman church of Santa Maria degli Angeli in September 2003. 
Newlyweds in Brunei - the Sultan's son Abdul Malik and his wife Dayangku Bolkiah - pose for cameras after their wedding in April 2015 
Bride of Anglo-Belgian origin Claire Coombs and her husband, Prince Laurent, at the Royal Palace in Brussels. April 2003 
Moroccan Prince Mohammed VI, along with his fiancee Salma Bennani in the official wedding picture. The ceremony was held in public, which went against tradition and showed a Muslim monarchy that strives to be modern. July 2002 
Spanish Crown Prince Felipe and his wife, former TV presenter Leticia Ortiz, now Princess of Asturias, at their wedding at the Royal Palace in Madrid. May 2004 
Prince Nikolaos, son of deposed King Constantine of Greece, and his fiancée Tatiana Blatnik leave the church after their wedding ceremony on the island of Spetses. August 2010 
Prussian Prince Georg Friedrich, great-great-grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and Princess Sophia von Isenburg at Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam, Germany. August 2011 
Spanish Infanta Cristina and her husband Iñaki Urdangarin stroll in the gardens of the Pedralbes Palace in Barcelona. The princess chose an Olympic handball star as her groom, the ceremony took place in a Gothic temple in the presence of royals from around the world. October 1997 
The Dutch prince Friso chose Maybel Wisse Smith as his wife. The picture was taken at a wedding in Delft. April 2004 
Viscount Linley, Queen Elizabeth's nephew, and Serena Stanhope in a flower arch after a service at St. Margaret's. Westminster, October 1993 
Dutch Prince Maurits and his fiancee Marilene van den Broek walk arm in arm after their church wedding. The groom is the nephew of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. The wedding took place in May 1998 
Jordanian Prince Rashid bin al-Hussein walks with his fiancee, Princess Zeina, during a ceremony at the Bassman Palace. The picture was taken in July 2011
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