household cavalry
Americannoun
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This time there's the glitter of a carriage procession from Buckingham Palace with the household cavalry accompanying them.
From BBC • Nov. 7, 2023
McCarthy, the Australian ambassador, said he had heard that Queen Elizabeth II’s royal household team featured Grenadier Guards and the royal household cavalry.
From Washington Times • Jun. 23, 2014
The artillery was drawn up on the walls, the little squadron of household cavalry was in attendance upon the Marquis.
From The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo by Brady, Cyrus Townsend
An attack upon them by the household cavalry was repulsed.
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin
While I was in Siam I was the guest one day of the officers' mess of the crack regiment of the household cavalry.
From Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China by Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander)
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