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Canadian Mounties take over Royal duties at Horse Guards

The Household Cavalry have handed their duties to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to guard Her Majesty The Queen at Horse Guards Parade.

Re-enacting a gesture made by her father, King George VI, in 1936, HM The Queen has seen fit to celebrate the Commonwealth by inviting the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to take part in British ceremonial this summer.

A strong relationship between the Royal Family and the Mounties was forged in 1904, when The Queen's grandfather, King Edward VII, granted the Canadian Mounted Police the prefix 'Royal' in recognition of the Force's many services to Canada and the Empire.

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