Article: “A guardsman’s life is terrible hard”

 

Recently I’ve read an article “A guardsman’s life is terrible hard” by Paul Spiers . Author points out saddening fact about Queen soldiers - they have been posted out behind the railings of Buckingham Palace because of irritating tourists. What sightseers  do, exceeds all expectations! Most of them are  just making fun of the guards who are on duty, by dancing next to them, trying to mimic them, shouting and saying all kinds of things etc.

People wanting to grab attention of the royal guards are  just making their work more and more difficult. Tourists don’t realize that they guards not standing there as a tourist attraction but are professionally trained soldiers on royal duty to protect the Queen who  should be respected at  their work not made fun of! Guardsman are on duty for  24h or 48hwith 2h on sentry and 4h on different tasks.  They so dedicated to their duty that until they’re released from shift  they won’t go to the bathroom, take a break, or eat . On a hot summer day there even were cases of Guardsman faint from the heat!

Source:

https://www.stripes.com/news/a-guardsman-s-life-is-terrible-hard-1.52214?fbclid=IwAR2_XU07nQcgODsSXs-Ub5MGlnwXroiBLYRrRmx7RpR7zNR_OAMxLtLz6aY

I also attach an interesting videos about guards and annoing tourists:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4TtUMQ0Mz4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K69SoL563mM