# Mounties guard the Queen **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 23, 2012, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mounties-guard-the-queen/622814 "2012-05-23T09:29:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2012, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mounties-guard-the-queen/622814/1 "2012-05-23T09:29:05Z")
Canadian Dopers may be interested that today and Friday the RCMP are [Mounting the Guard](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/the_queens_diamond_jubilee/9284116/Queen-guarded-by-Canadian-Mounties-today.html) at Horseguards. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2012, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mounties-guard-the-queen/622814/2 "2012-05-23T13:42:19Z")
My dyslexia did wonders for the thread title. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2012, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mounties-guard-the-queen/622814/3 "2012-05-23T19:37:44Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > My dyslexia did wonders for the thread title. Guardies mount the queen? Me too.😛 ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mounties-guard-the-queen/622814/4 "2012-05-23T19:54:11Z")
“Mounties guard the Queen” really, really needs to be a euphemism for something. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2012, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mounties-guard-the-queen/622814/5 "2012-05-23T20:17:55Z")
> [@Dr.Woo](#): > > Guardies mount the queen? Me too.😛 I had the same thought! It’s like we’re connected. Next line is yours, **Dr. Woo** 😉 Quasi ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2012, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mounties-guard-the-queen/622814/6 "2012-05-23T21:51:40Z")
> [@Dr.Woo](#): > > Guardies mount the queen? Me too.😛 My thought was “The Queen mounts the Guards” . . . slightly worse . . . :o ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2012, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mounties-guard-the-queen/622814/7 "2012-05-23T23:02:27Z")
It’s why the RCMP amateur theatrical club can’t put on A Midsummers Night Dream. Nobody can be Bottom. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2012, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mounties-guard-the-queen/622814/8 "2012-05-23T23:15:26Z")
Not to be on-topic or anything, but that’s actually pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mounties-guard-the-queen/622814/9 "2012-05-24T02:08:48Z")
At first I thought the Queen must be visiting Canada . . . but, no, the story says this is in the UK (at least, no mention of it being elsewhere) for her Diamond Jubilee stuff. What else is happening with that? ---
**Author:** ![Damfino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Damfino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damfino)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mounties-guard-the-queen/622814/10 "2012-05-24T22:00:56Z")
[Commonwealth contingents](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Guard#Commonwealth_units_to_have_mounted_the_King.27s.2FQueen.27s_Guard) have done so several times in the past, many of them Canadian. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mounties-guard-the-queen/622814/11 "2012-05-24T22:16:33Z")
> [@Damfino](#): > > [Commonwealth contingents](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Guard#Commonwealth_units_to_have_mounted_the_King.27s.2FQueen.27s_Guard) have done so several times in the past, many of them Canadian. The Queen’s Guard and the Queen’s Life Guard aren’t the same thing. It’s [much more rare](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Guard#Commonwealth_units_to_have_mounted_the_King.27s.2FQueen.27s_Life_Guard) for a non-British unit to mount the Queen’s Life Guard (probably for logistical reasons, since horses aren’t exactly the easiest things to take overseas). ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mounties-guard-the-queen/622814/12 "2012-05-24T22:20:58Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > “Mounties guard the Queen” really, really needs to be a euphemism for something. “…and then the we went back to her place, nightcap, hot tub, at first it was all mounties guard the queen, but the incense began to work, and then it was both taps open and rubber duckie all over, know what I mean?” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mounties-guard-the-queen/622814/13 "2012-05-25T01:31:27Z")
Say no mo’ ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mounties-guard-the-queen/622814/14 "2012-05-25T02:24:45Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Say no mo’ wink-wink nudge-nudge. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mounties-guard-the-queen/622814/15 "2012-05-25T03:05:38Z")
> [@Lord\_Feldon](#): > > The Queen’s Guard and the Queen’s Life Guard aren’t the same thing. It’s [much more rare](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Guard#Commonwealth_units_to_have_mounted_the_King.27s.2FQueen.27s_Life_Guard) for a non-British unit to mount the Queen’s Life Guard (probably for logistical reasons, since horses aren’t exactly the easiest things to take overseas). Also the first female guards as well, from what I heard. It’s rather awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mounties-guard-the-queen/622814/16 "2012-05-25T05:26:35Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > … and then it was both taps open and rubber duckie all over, know what I mean? Is that what the kids are calling it nowadays? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mounties-guard-the-queen/622814/17 "2012-05-25T15:30:44Z")
> [@Damfino](#): > > [Commonwealth contingents](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Guard#Commonwealth_units_to_have_mounted_the_King.27s.2FQueen.27s_Guard) have done so several times in the past, many of them Canadian. True, but the article says that this is the first non-miitary contingent. But why on Earth did they wear their blue uniforms, and not the red serge! far more recognizable and iconic. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mounties-guard-the-queen/622814/18 "2012-05-25T15:45:31Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > True, but the article says that this is the first non-miitary contingent. > > But why on Earth did they wear their blue uniforms, and not the red serge! far more recognizable and iconic. They are wearing the red serge; I think the blue uniforms were being worn during training, but they are definitely in the red while on duty. ---
**Author:** ![Damfino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Damfino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damfino)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mounties-guard-the-queen/622814/19 "2012-05-25T21:43:41Z")
> [@Lord\_Feldon](#): > > The Queen’s Guard and the Queen’s Life Guard aren’t the same thing. It’s [much more rare](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Guard#Commonwealth_units_to_have_mounted_the_King.27s.2FQueen.27s_Life_Guard) for a non-British unit to mount the Queen’s Life Guard (probably for logistical reasons, since horses aren’t exactly the easiest things to take overseas). Ah. Sorry, overlooked the distinction. ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2012, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mounties-guard-the-queen/622814/20 "2012-05-26T16:46:34Z")
The queen had better not carry a stapler. Who will protect her when one or all of the cops pull her out of her carriage and repeatedly kick her in the head? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mounties-guard-the-queen/622814.md?page=2)