4327 x 5740 px | 36,6 x 48,6 cm | 14,4 x 19,1 inches | 300dpi
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Views of England in the Photochrom Yeomen of the Guard The Queen s Body Guard known as the Yeomen of the Guard are a bodyguard of the British Monarch There are 73 Yeomen of the Guard all of whom are former officers and sergeants of the British Services It is the oldest of the Royal bodyguards and the oldest military corps in existence in Britain Yeomen of the Guards are also often called Beefeaters The Yeomen of the Guard have a purely ceremonial role They accompany the Sovereign at the annual Royal Maundy Service investitures and summer Garden Parties at Buckingham Palace and so on Their most famous duty is to ceremonially search the cellars of the Palace of Westminster prior to the State Opening of Parliament a tradition that dates back to the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 when Guy Fawkes attempted to blow up Parliament The Yeomen of the Guard were formed in 1485 by King Henry VII After his victory at the Battle of Bosworth he gathered a group of soldiers together to become his personal bodyguard together and they accompanied him wherever he went as his nearest guard Digitally restored Art 1890 1900 Photochrom or Photochrome is used to create a color print from a black and white photo negative using between four and fourteen lithograph stones made from rocklike substances to colorize the print with several different inks
