All the Queen's men : the Household Cavalry and the Brigade of Guards / by Russell Braddon.

Includes index.

ALL THE QUEEN{u2019}S MEN : 1) The Guards on parade. 2) Attention to detail. 3) The birth of the Guards. 4) The growing- up of the Guards 1660 to 1961. THE GUARD{u2019}S, THEIR SOVEREIGN AND LONDON,1660 to 1901: 5) Charles the Second. 6) James the Second, William the Third and Mary. 7) Ann, George the Third. 8) George the Third, Victoria . THE GUARDS AT WAR 1660 -1815 : 9) The Guards at War in Europe 1660-1763. 10) The Guards at War in America. 11) The Guards at War in Europe 1793 to 1814. 12) The guards at War in Europe: Waterloo. THE GUARDS AT HOME: 13) The Guards and discipline. 14) The Guards and tumults, seditions, conspiracies. 15) The Guards{u2019} bands 16) Officers. THE GUARDS AT WAR,1854 to 1901 : 17) The Guards at War in Russia. 18) The Guards at War in South Africa. THE GUARDS, THEIR SOVEREIGN AND LONDON AFTER 1901: 19) Edward the Seventh: Elizabeth the Second. THE GUARDS IN ACTION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 20) The Guards in two world wars 21) The Guards at war. THE ROYAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE GUARDS, ( Charles the Second - Elizabeth the Second ): 22. The royal relationship with the guards. THE GUARDS TODAY: 23) Twentieth Century Guardsmen. THE GUARDS AND TUMULTS OVERSEAS: 24) Malaya. 25) Aden. 26) Ulster TRADITION: 27) The guards never forget. 28) The Household Division today.

A presentation of more than three centuries of history featuring The Household Division of Foot Guards and Cavalry; whose regiments have protected each Sovereign since the Restoration; fought each Monarch's wars; served their country also as policemen , firemen and sometime vice-squad until the mid nineteenth century; and have known the armies of every other great nation, sometimes as allies, sometimes as foes.