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Royal Family Witness FIRST EVER French Troops Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace


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Peter Burgess
Royal Family Witness FIRST EVER French Troops Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace

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BUCKINGHAM PALACE

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Royal Family Witness FIRST EVER French Troops Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace

April 8th 2024

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Transcript
  • 0:02
  • good morning everybody and welcome back to the Kings Gods Channel fan
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  • account so we have an extremely exciting day today here at Buckingham
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  • Palace we have the very first like they have like
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  • Changing of the Guard in history with a non-commonwealth
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  • country so today the United Kingdom and France are going to be doing Changing of
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  • the Guard today to Mark the
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  • 120th anniversary of the onon
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  • Cal signing that happened
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  • 120 years ago so I'm going to try and get a great
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  • position for you to watch this morning here at Buckingham
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  • Palace so sit back relax let me know where you're tuning in
  • 1:29
  • from today
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  • get yourself a cup of tea true British
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  • style and enjoy the
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  • video so we are expecting to see some Royals today as well which is going to be super exciting
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  • and then they will be entering in
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  • fact speaking of the Royals they are on their way right
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  • now expecting to see Prince Edward and
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  • Sophie we have a special escort
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  • group there's Prince Edward and Sophie
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  • arriving at BAM
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  • Palace
  • 3:03
  • talk about timing if you're enjoying this video make sure to give it a
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  • like and if you're new to this channel then definitely subscribe bring you fantastic
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  • content all about the King's Guard this is the SG the special escort
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  • group here on motorbikes armed police
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  • officers so now that the Royals have actually
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  • passed on the road that means that the road will be clear so we can go and get a
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  • closer look of Changing of the Guard today so it's extremely extremely
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  • exciting as this is the first time in history that we have had change of the guard with a non-commonwealth
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  • country
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  • so I can imagine a lot of French people are here today as well
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  • to celebrate that the fact that France is
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  • indeed just going to navigate my way through the public
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  • here as I was saying it is the first time that the French will be
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  • changing with the household division this morning
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  • for changing off the guard ladies and you can't stop here you
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  • have to be behind the railing or further along or you can over
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  • the M right so we are on the main area where
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  • the troops will march here just in front of the
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  • palace and then they will enter the foreground of the palace you can see the hundreds if not thousands of people
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  • already here to watch the change across the road very
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  • briefly we are now on Victoria Memorial so once we're on here there's no getting
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  • off until Changing of the Guard
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  • finishes let's go and get an excellent
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  • view just going to roll this video continuously so you really get a real
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  • feeling for what it's like
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  • how about we just stand here how's that for a
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  • view I think it's pretty
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  • good so look at how bus is already on the memorial
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  • hundreds of people here behind us and
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  • then way more all lined all the
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  • way to the left of the
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  • palace it
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  • continues and continues and continues
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  • [Music] Okay so we've just had a police officer shout at this person to get off the
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  • road they will tell you immediately to get off the road when you're not
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  • allowed to be on there that was a very powerful shout by
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  • the officer it did actually sound like a King's
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  • Guard so again let me know where you're tuning in from where abouts in the world are
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  • you watching this video really do take pride in bringing
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  • you the best content all about the King's Guard and
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  • royalty so right here we have I can see there there's a press pen just zoom in there for you
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  • so looks like there's Press On a type of raised
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  • PL and possibly a news Outlet or a some type
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  • of mainstream camera
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  • Outlet now the security today is going to be pretty intense we have
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  • Royals we have the French troops we have the British troops and we have many
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  • other very important people spectating the ceremony today oh and right here you can
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  • see the little raised section just there that is
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  • where Prince Edward and Sophie will be watching The Changing of
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  • the Guard today so we're going to a fantastic view of the Royals spectating
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  • changing up the
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  • guard now again do do make sure you hit that like button really does help other
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  • people like yourselves come across the video
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  • i' really appreciate that and I want to thank you in advance
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  • for tuning in it's great to have you on board so you can see here the that is
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  • the Royal balcony very famous balcony on one of the most famous
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  • palaces in the
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  • world
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  • there's a lot of suspense in the air the atmosphere is quite incredible relatively quiet considering
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  • there's tens of thousands of people here but we have an excellent
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  • View right in the middle this is the central
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  • gate of booking in Palace if I just zoom out I'll show you the whole
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  • Palace
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  • fantastic
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  • so we did just see the Royals enter this gate that is the main gate that they use
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  • for any entrance or
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  • exit and if I pan over to the far left you can actually
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  • see the gate over here is all boarded
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  • up with wooden paneling and Scaffolding that's as it's having some restoration
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  • work because a car crashed into it just over a month ago which is obviously super
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  • scary and uh work is still underway due to the
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  • damage so like I said it's it's extra high here
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  • today see there's a guard in red Scarlet tun
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  • neck and this is going to be the first time that we're going to see the gods I
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  • believe in red as they March to the
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  • Palace
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  • as the guards actually switched over to their summer retire yesterday but they didn't do the
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  • March it wasn't visible to the public but today we will see them marching to the Palace in their summer
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  • order police that undoing the gate for the arrival of the
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  • guards
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  • good old lock and key there for the main gate of booking and Palace see armed officers there heavy
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  • duty weapons no messing about here today
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  • security is
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  • real so just a little recap of why we're here today so today is the first time
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  • that we're going to have Changing of the Guard with a non-commonwealth country to Mark the 100
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  • 20th 120th anniversary of the
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  • on Cordell
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  • agreement so today we have the French guards and the household
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  • division
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  • and they'll be doing change of the guard
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  • with expectation of the Royals for the first time in history
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  • here at bookan
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  • Palace
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  • right there so we actually have an excellent view here so we're going to see the guards
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  • Marching for the first time right in front of us on this Red Road this Royal Road here and
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  • then over there on the Royal raised
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  • plinth we will have the Duke and the duess of
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  • Edinburgh Prince Edward and Sophie
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  • attending Ching of the Guard today now talking about security if we
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  • just zoom up here to the top of the palace you can see we have eyes in the
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  • sky that actually looks like a photographer there on the
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  • left so you can see if I just do a full 360 rotation for you as well just to
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  • really get an idea of how busy it it is
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  • here quite incredible
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  • like I said once you're on Victoria Memorial you're not allowed to leave
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  • until you're allowed to as it's surrounded by
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  • Road beautiful gray horses
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  • here
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  • wow just [Music]
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  • incredible
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  • so right there we just have the British guards escorting the color I believe that's Scots
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  • guards we really do have the first line of view
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  • here an incredible point of view so do make sure to give this video a like And
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  • subscribe if you're enjoying this video we're about to hit 300,000
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  • subscribers on our YouTube Community it's just incredible so I want to thank each and every one of
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  • you
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  • for
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  • it's actually a glorious day here in
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  • London spring has finally
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  • arrived and it's around 17 18 degrees cius
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  • not too sure what that is in Fahrenheit if you do know let me know in the comment comment box
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  • below so anytime soon we should be seeing the French guards arriving at
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  • booking and Palace for the first time in
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  • history as the
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  • gods British guards are here on the left
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  • and the French troops will enter the palace in the
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  • center and I believe that they will stand here to the right hand side
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  • of the
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  • palace again let me know where you're tuning in from what part of the world are you watching from it's great to hear
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  • from our
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  • subscribers
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  • again we have armed police right there right in the center of the
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  • gates full protection here today as Royals will be standing right there
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  • behind them viewing the guard
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  • change have a helicopter in the sky not too sure what
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  • that's about could be a police helicopter as well most likely is okay
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  • so here we go I can hear drums in the background they will be arriving anytime
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  • soon
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  • oh my goodness and we are standing like
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  • our pinned
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  • up
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  • so I believe we have the band of the Grenadier guards arriving here at the
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  • palace and they will join Scots guards on the four Court of the
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  • palace along with the French
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  • guards
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  • good
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  • this really is an incredible moment marking the 120th
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  • anniversary of the onon
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  • Cordell signing happened 120 years
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  • ago do we have the j j marie guyss
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  • arriving we will
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  • see
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  • wow looking fantastic
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  • here we are right in the center of the palace with an incredible view
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  • here everyone they passed right in front of
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  • us heading towards the right hand side of the palace in the right gate
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  • and we have the French troops
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  • here for the first time in history we have ch of the guard with a
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  • non-commonwealth
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  • country
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  • marvelous sight here today in
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  • London
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  • long
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  • time
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  • speee spe
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  • speech
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  • spe
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  • we should be seeing Prince Edward and Sophie anytime
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  • soon did you and duess of
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  • Edinburgh make sure you hit that like button you're enjoying this
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  • video
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  • a good Shake of the hand between the French and the British right
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  • there [Music]
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  • for spe speech
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  • speech speech
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  • I really do hope that you're enjoying this
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  • video again there are some very important people today
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  • witnessing today's
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  • anniversary and also history in the
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  • making
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  • and there we go the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh Prince Edward and
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  • Sophie I believe the national anthem will be played now
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  • just remarkable [Music]
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  • sight [Music]
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  • for
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  • [Music]
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  • ch
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  • [Music] [Applause] many French here in the audience loving
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  • the National Anthem of France and now the national anthem of the United
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  • Kingdom
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  • put yeah some good
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  • stuff
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  • ladies and gents look after your purse your wallet your money
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  • your so now we have the French and the British military
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  • in the front Court of looking in palace here for Changing of the
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  • Guard and just to give you a real example of
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  • how busy this moment is it's
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  • just fascinating how many people have turned up for change of the G today
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  • considering the anniversary and the history in the
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  • making I see exactly why people have come to spectate this marvelous
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  • event really they are in the heart of London just in front of one of the most famous palaces in the
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  • [Music] world again let me know where you're tuning in
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  • from see just there through the gates
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  • French on the right side of the
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  • palace and the British on the left hand side of the
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  • palace CH
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  • yeah
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  • [Music]
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  • excellent view of the royal [Music]
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  • balcony let me know if you've been to London before
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  • I really do film these videos so it feels like you're here just continuously roll and let
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  • things unfold as the event unfolds
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  • itself really do hope that you're enjoying yourselves and again if you're new here subscribe
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  • for future uploads
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  • [Music]
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  • and one thing that's fantastic is where where now viewing a
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  • change if you do come to buan Palace stand where we are now on
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  • Victoria Memorial as you having an excellent view from here and if you stood here unfortunately shoulder toh
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  • shoulder with no line of
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  • sight so just a little bit of useful information there
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  • stand on Victoria
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  • Memorial we have the Union flag flying high
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  • [Music] today
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  • speee
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  • it is getting quite warm now standing here in the [Music]
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  • sun however we can say we're all glad it's not raining in a true prti
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  • weather Style so for once we actually have glorious Sunshine here in front of the
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  • [Music]
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  • [Music] palace
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  • and again we have Prince
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  • Edward and Sophie here on
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  • the platform there in the four Court of booking
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  • Palace [Music]
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  • video
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  • way
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  • my
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  • really is a very special day
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  • here we go so some movement happening in buen and
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  • [Music]
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  • Palace so we have the band right behind here marching and public having to get
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  • out of the way very quickly [Music]
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  • there we have the French leaving Buckingham Palace
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  • today first time of Changing of the Guard with a non-commonwealth country history being
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  • [Music]
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  • made
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  • you can just see how many people are here today viewing the
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  • change Rene the military
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  • man
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  • just a fantastic ceremony now I wonder
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  • when the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh will exit the palace
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  • possibly Center gate
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  • again give this video a like if you're enjoying what you're seeing scorting the
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  • color
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  • here all the guests that are invited to watch CH of the Guard today very
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  • important
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  • people
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  • spe
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  • so the armed officers there are now going to close the main gate to bucking
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  • and Palace after that incredible
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  • event
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  • and we have yet to see Prince Edward and Sophie leave the palace so I assume that there will be
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  • exiting from the right hand gate over here so let's go and get a closer
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  • look as we did indeed at the beginning of this video watch them arrive which
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  • was fantastic and I'll try my best to get closer as I
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  • navigate around a very busy area
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  • here so just to quickly say that this is Victoria Memorial and it's a fantastic
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  • viewing area of the palace if you do visit London in the near
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  • future
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  • the roals should be leaving anytime
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  • soon
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  • [Music] already this is when the police have to
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  • make sure that they still crowd control efficiently
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  • as I do believe that the Royals will be leaving anytime soon
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  • and they need the road clear for the
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  • [Music]
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  • motorcade unless they do indeed decide to have lunch at the
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  • palace they B stay at bingan Palace
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  • for a few more hours
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  • I I have just seen a guard
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  • here
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  • foree
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  • okay everyone well I'm going to wrap the video here I just want to say a massive
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  • thank you for tuning in today I really hope that you enjoyed this spectacle it
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  • really was a pleasure pleasure of mine to take you around to view something
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  • that has never happened before the first Changing of the
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  • Guard with a non-commonwealth country so we have the change of the G today with
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  • the French and the British such an incredible moment to
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  • witness have a fantastic day and I will see you again
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  • in my next
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