The King's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard is a bodyguard of the British monarch. The oldest British military corps still in existence, it was created...
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The Yeomen of the Guard; or, The Merryman and His Maid, is a Savoy Opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It premiered at...
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The Yeomen Warders of His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress the Tower of London, and Members of the Sovereign's Body Guard of the Yeoman Guard Extraordinary...
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The Captain of the King's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard is a UK Government post usually held by the Government Deputy Chief Whip in the House of...
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Gilbert and Sullivan (section The Yeomen of the Guard)
The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu (1885) 672 performances Ruddigore; or, The Witch's Curse (1887) 288 performances The Yeomen of the Guard; or, The Merryman...
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Lying in state (redirect from Vigil guard)
from the Yeomen of the Guard, and two from either the Gentlemen-at-Arms or the Royal Company of Archers, and form the 'Outer Guard'. The Yeomen of the Guard...
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Sovereign's Bodyguard (category Positions within the British Royal Household)
of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms – formed 1509 King's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard – formed 1485 Royal Company of Archers, the King's...
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The Yeoman of the Guard is a 1978 British TV version of the Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy opera The Yeomen of the Guard. It was a filmed version of a 1978...
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Arthur Sullivan (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music)
altogether for the prelude. Sullivan disliked much of Wagner's Musikdrama, but he modelled the overture to The Yeomen of the Guard on the prelude of Die Meistersinger...
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be Captain of the Queen's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard and Government Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords. In July 2016, he was moved by...
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Tudor rose (redirect from Union of the Roses)
the dress uniforms of the Yeomen Warders at the Tower of London, and of the Yeomen of the Guard. It features in the design of the 20-pence coin minted...
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Archers; and Yeomen of the Guard, in the United Kingdom Pontifical Swiss Guard, in Vatican City Foot guards Household Division Imperial guard Lifeguard Presidential...
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the free dictionary. Beefeater is a term often used to refer to the Yeomen Warders of the Tower of London, but originally referring to the Yeomen of the...
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Yeoman (disambiguation) (redirect from The Yeomen)
categorisation of British hill Yeoman (household servant) Yeomen of the Guard, the royal bodyguard of England The Yeomen of the Guard, a Gilbert and Sullivan...
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Richard Newby, Baron Newby (category Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom)
House of Lords, and the Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard between 2012 and 2015, and the Liberal Democrat Chief Whip in the House of Lords from 2012 to...
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Bruce Shand (category Officers of the Yeomen of the Guard)
Adjutant and Clerk of the Cheque of the Queen's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard. Shand supported the Conservative Party in the UK. In 1993, Shand...
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Walter Raleigh (category Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Cornwall)
in the Strand and the estate of Sherborne, Dorset. He was appointed Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard. However, he had not been given any of the great...
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age include the English Yeomen of the Guard, established in 1485, and the 1st King's Immemorial Infantry Regiment of AHQ of the Spanish Army (Regimiento...
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Baritone (redirect from List of famous baritones)
Daly, The Sorcerer The Duke of Plaza-Toro, The Gondoliers Florian, Princess Ida Giuseppe Palmieri, The Gondoliers Jack Point, The Yeomen of the Guard John...
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was a British peer and Liberal politician. He served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard from 1905 to 1907 under Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. Manchester...
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Red coat (military uniform) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Commonwealth of Nations. The usage of red coats by English soldiers dates back to the Tudor period, when the Yeomen of the Guard and the Yeomen Warders were...
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Arthur Sullivan had included a version in the Savoy opera The Yeomen of the Guard. Sharp discusses at length the similar Hebrew song "Echad Mi Yodea" (Who...
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Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard under Sir Robert Peel between 1842 and 1846. He succeeded to his peerage on 12 February 1865, after the death of his childless...
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family until 1987. The Beefeater distillery is one of 24 in London. The name refers to the Yeomen of the Guard who are a bodyguard of the British Monarch...
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Tommy Steele (redirect from Tommy Steele And The Steelmen)
The Yeomen of the Guard (misspelt as "The Yeoman..."), singing the role of the hapless jester Jack Point. In 1983, Steele directed and starred in the West...
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Perversion of Tennyson's Princess" The Mikado: a "Japanese Opera" Ruddygore: a "Supernatural Opera" The Yeomen of the Guard: an "Opera" The Gondoliers:...
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Henry Calvin (category Deaths from throat cancer in the United States)
Against Joe (1956) as Red Waller The Broken Star (1956) as Thornton W. Wills The Yeomen of the Guard (Hallmark Hall of Fame) (1957) (TV) as Wilfred Shadbolt...
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government as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard between 1868 and 1874. St Albans was the only son of William Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St Albans, and Elizabeth...
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Bicorne (category History of clothing (Western fashion))
appointments also wear cocked hats (e.g. officers of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, officers of the Yeomen of the Guard, etc.). In most British regiments prior to...
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