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They are the most recognisable soldiers in the UK, if not the world. The public face of royal ceremony, resplendent in bearskins and scarlet tunics, they stand guard outside Britain's royal residences, most famously Buckingham Palace. But the Grenadier Guards are also the most senior infantry regiment in the British Army and they are also one of the oldest, celebrating their 350th anniversary last year.
To mark this milestone, Guarding the Queen will provide a rare behind the scenes insight into their journey from rookie recruits to carrying out important duties outside Buckingham Palace and on the front line.
Between December 2006 to June 2007 cameras have exclusively followed the Nijmegen Company who form a key part of the Household Division of the Grenadier Guards. Their job at Wellington Barracks in London includes guarding both the Queen, and the Crown Jewels at The Tower of London. It is the first time the Grenadiers have been filmed in ten years.
In the first of this three-part series, the Queen celebrates the 350th anniversary of the Grenadiers with a party at Windsor Castle. For commanding officer Colonel Carew Hatherley it's a very proud moment.
"We're carrying on 350 years of serving the monarchy - that's ten kings and three queens. It's part of the living history of Great Britain," he says.
But not all the guards are enjoying the party. Up in the Scottish highlands Captain Ollie Doherty is leading a group of trainee guardsmen on their final exercise in battlefield discipline - the climax of months of hard training. Of the 13 Grenadiers that started the course only four remain.
One of the four is Steven Cooper, and the programme cameras follow him on his passing out parade at the guards' training depot in Catterick in Yorkshire - and see how he settles into life at Wellington Barracks in London before taking part in his first guard change outside Buckingham Palace.
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Guarding The Queen - S1 E01
Cameras are granted exclusive behind-the-scenes access to the royal palaces to follow the historic and hidden world of the Grenadier Guards.
In this first of three episodes, the Queen invites the Guards to a party at Windsor Castle to celebrate three hundred and fifty years of guarding the monarch.
Plus, the efforts of 17-year-old Steven Cooper as he approaches the end of basic training in Scotland. If he qualifies, he will enter a world of pomp and ceremony, royalty and tourists.
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Guarding The Queen - S1 E02
The historic and hidden world of the Grenadier Guards.
Major Thorold Youngman Sullivan and Sergeant Major Steve Munro have their work cut out maintaining the impeccable standards of the Grenadiers while many of their most experienced men are fighting in Afghanistan.
Their newest recruit Steven Cooper longs to swap his sentry box for a place on the frontline, but he'll have to wait till after the state visit of the President of Ghana.
And the time has come for Grenadier Conway Seymour to retire.
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Guarding The Queen - S1 E03
Today, the Grenadier's Ceremonial Soldiers are in London practicing Trooping the Colour, alongside their great regimental rivals the Coldstream Guards. And the public grandeur of Trooping the Colour contrasts with the more private dignity of the ceremonies that surround the deaths of the Grenadiers killed in action in Helmand Province.
Since the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards deployed to Afghanistan five Guardsmen have been killed. This programme is in their memory.
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