British Military Heritage: Guards and Household Divisions (2009)

There are few military formations in the world with such a long and distinguished record as The Guards. Although the Household Division is an administrative rather than fighting formation, and although The Guards are most visible for their central part in London's spectacular occasions of military and State pageantry, the regiments are first and foremost professional soldiers, ready to exchange their ceremonial uniforms for combat fatigues at short notice - as they proved in the Falklands and Gulf Wars.