This Monday, France will become the first non-Commonwealth country to take over the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace. Two sections of the 1st and 2nd Republican Guard Infantry Regiments will take part in the ceremony alongside guards from F Company Scots Guards.

A cross relief since, at the same time, in Paris, grenadiers of the British royal house - sixteen members of No. 7 Company Coldstream Guards - will be associated with the relief of the Republican guards at the 'Elysium'