Trooping the Colour

Waiting for the highlights tonight as an alternative to dam footie.

Extraordinary!
They still are 99% white aren't they those guards. i was vehemently disagreed with on GN when I observed this a couple of years ago so just switched on to check. Not much has changed. Look now if you don't believe me!

Do you think that is on purpose JessM? Maybe other colours don't apply to join the Forces.

They do I think in other regiments, but the Guards are a special case. Maybe they are put off applying?

What are the other demographic proportions like in the guards? Do class and money give applicants an edge? Riding ability for horse regiments might vary with the background of the recruit.

One of the musicians was saying she had been taught to ride in the army.
Guards officers maybe more public school than other regiments? They were certainly all very pink.
In the UK pop, according to St Lenny Henry just now on R4, proportion of ethnic minorities is over 14%.
9% in the forces. excluding Ghurkas.
www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2009/mar/01/military-race

14%? That seems rather a high proportion for the UK as a whole...

According the to Office of National Statistics: The White ethnic group accounted for 86.0 per cent of the usual resident population in 2011
Seems like the ONS and Lenny are in agreement.

Watching the highlights now - brilliant !! The discipline and accuracy of those young men is to be commended especially when they can hardly see under those bearskins .
I am not bothered by the colour of their skin in the same way as I am not bothered by the colour of doctors I meet.

I just love seeing so many beautiful horses.

Twiggy - but that's rather a reverse issue isn't it?

Jess this is the thread you're referring to:

www.gransnet.com/forums/politics/1192820-Theyre-changing-white-guards-at-Buckingham-Palace-embarrassing-spectacle

I watched the highlights this evening. I was driving out of Waitrose car park today when I saw the 4 helicopters returning to RAF Northolt. I have never seen a Chenook in the sky before quite so close. All of the cars in front of me stopped to look.

Are any of the guards female?

Difficult to tell under all that hat Hollydaze . Some of the musicians definitely are. Is there some technicality about women not fighting in front line so they would not be included in certain regiments?

Looked it up. No women in the infantry, and some other units. For officers women are not allowed in Household Cavalry, Armoured units and infantry. So if the bearskin wearers are infantry then no women.

Many thanks for answering JessM - seems to be a bit of an exclusive club!

changing the subject a bit - I recorded Diana's dresses last night and watched this afternoon - what a very glamorous and outstandingly fashionable person she was - would still knock spots off anyone even today I think

She would whitewave - I could bore for Britain about her

Really...?

Yes, I was a great admirer of hers. Every now and again, someone with great charisma enters the world stage and she was one of those people - it's fascinating and I wish I understood it better (well, at all really). There was something very captivating about her.

I'm sorry, but I don't share your opinion, not that it matters at all!

(the fact that I don't share it, I mean, not your opinion...!)

Holly daze couldn't have put it better myself I sae Diana twice she was absolutely stunning no one comes close.