Women guarding Royal Palaces for the first time

For the first time women soldiers are guarding Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle.  At Windsor Castle, there are five women soldiers, part of the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery, and at Buckingham Palace Captain Chloe Madden of the Army Air Corps has made history by being the first female to guard the world's most famous palace.

For more information on this story, see  Women on guard at Queen's residences .

Posted on Monday 2 April, 2007
Filed under: Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle
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