Page 58 - (DK Eyewitness) Travel Guide - London

56  INTRODUCING L ONDON

London’s Best: St James’s Palace and
Ceremonies Buckingham Palace
Members of the
Queen’s Life Guard
Much of London’s rich inheritance of tradition and stand at the gates
ceremony centres on royalty. Faithfully enacted of these two palaces.
today, some of these ceremonies date back to
the Middle Ages, when the ruling monarch had
absolute power and had to be protected from
opponents. This map shows the venues for some
of the most important ceremonies in London.
For more details on these and other ceremonies
turn to pages 58–9; information on all sorts of Bloomsbury
events taking place in London throughout the and Fitzrovia
year can be found on pages 60–63.

Soho and
Trafalgar Covent
Square Garden and
the Strand
South Kensington
and Knightsbridge

Hyde Park Piccadilly,
Royal Salutes are fired by Mayfair and
guns of the King’s Troop St James’s
Royal Horse Artillery on
royal anniversaries and
ceremonial occasions.
Whitehall and
Westminster

Chelsea

Horse Guards
At Trooping the
Royal Hospital Chelsea Colour, the most
In 1651 Charles II hid from elaborate of London’s
Parliamentary forces in an royal ceremonies,
oak tree. On Oak Apple the Queen salutes as
Day, Chelsea Pensioners a battalion of Foot
decorate his statue with Guards parades its
oak leaves and branches. colours before her.

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