Changing the guard at Buckingham Palace. Photo by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas and retrieved from Wikimedia Commons
Many of the books I read as a girl were set in London. One of the earliest, a children’s book of verse by A.A. Milne called ‘When We Were Very Young‘, had ‘Buckingham Palace’, which begins:
They’re changing guard at Buckingham Palace –
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
Alice is marrying one of the guard.
“A soldier’s life is terrible hard,”
Says Alice.
Milne published this in 1924, when George V was King. The video below has changed ‘King’ to ‘Queen’.
Buckingham Palace is marked with an x
I did enjoy the music. I remember that song being played on ABC radio in the morning when I was young.
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After having QEII as our reigning monarch virtually all my life it will seem very strange when we have to convert to King Charles.
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