First Changing Of Queen's Guard By Royal Navy Buckingham Palace

Royal Navy sailors have performed the Changing of the Guard outside Buckingham Palace for the first time in the ceremony's 357-year history. Eighty-six sailors from 45 Royal Navy ships and establishments spent a month preparing ahead of the first ceremony on Sunday morning. Royal navy Changing The Guard. Warrant Officer Eddie Wearing said it was a "massive privilege". The ceremony is usually carried out by one of the five Foot Guards Regiments from the Army's Household Division. Eighty-six sailors from 45 Royal Navy ships and establishments spent a month preparing Second Sea Lord Vice Admiral Jonathan Woodcock tweeted that watching the event was a "highly emotional moment" and he was "so proud" of the Royal Navy. The Royal Navy has been training for a month for the historic occasion. The change in personnel is to mark 2017 as the "Year of the Navy", which former defence secretary Sir Michael Fallon called "the start of a new era of maritime power".