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{{Short description|Regiment of the British Army}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox military unit | unit_name = The Blues and Royals<br />(Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons) | image = Blues and Royals badge.png | image_size = 200px | caption = [[Heraldic badge|Badge]] of the regiment | dates = 29 March 1969–present | country = United Kingdom | branch = [[British Army]] | type = [[Cavalry#Ceremonial cavalry|Horse guards]] | role = [[Formation reconnaissance regiment|Armoured reconnaissance]] and [[Public duties|ceremonial]] | size = [[Regiment]] | command_structure = [[Household Cavalry]] | garrison = RHQ – [[London]]<br />Regiment – Windsor/London | nickname = | motto = {{lang|frm|[[Honi soit qui mal y pense]]}}<br />([[Middle French]] for "Shame on anyone who thinks evil of it")<ref>{{cite web | url = http://french.about.com/od/vocabulary/a/honi-soit-qui-mal-y-pense.htm| title = Honi soit qui mal y pense - French expressions analyzed and explained | work = About Education | publisher = [[About.com]]| access-date = 13 May 2017 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20150722174009/http://french.about.com/od/vocabulary/a/honi-soit-qui-mal-y-pense.htm| archive-date=22 July 2015}}</ref> | colors = | march = {{ubli|Quick – "Quick March of the Blues and Royals"|Slow – "Slow March of the Blues and Royals"|Trot Past – "[[Keel Row]]"}} | anniversaries = | battles = {{Tree list}} * [[Falklands War]] ** [[Mount Kent Skirmish]] {{Tree list/end}} | battle_honours = {{hidden | header = | content =* Pre-First World War: *[[English Tangier|Tangier 1662–1680]] *[[Battle of Dettingen|Dettingen]] *[[Warburg]] *[[Battle of Beaumont (1794)|Beaumont]] *[[Battle of Courtrai (1794)|Willems]] *[[Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro|Fuentes d'Onor]] *[[Peninsular War|Peninsula]] *[[Battle of Waterloo|Waterloo]] *[[Battle of Balaclava|Balaclava]] *[[Siege of Sevastopol (1854–55)|Sevastopol]] *[[Battle of Tel el-Kebir|Tel el Kebir]] *[[Egypt 1882]] *[[Relief of Ladysmith]] *[[South Africa 1899–1902]] *[[First World War]]: *[[Battle of Mons|Mons]] *[[Battle of Le Cateau|Le Cateau]] *[[Retreat from Mons]] *[[Marne 1914]] *[[Battle of the Aisne (1914)|Aisne 1914]] *[[Battle of Messines (1914)|Messines 1914]] *[[Battle of Armentières|Armentières 1914]] *[[First Battle of Ypres|Ypres 1914]] *[[Langemarck 1914]] *[[Gheluvelt]] *[[Nonne Bosschen]] *[[Battle of St. Julien|St Julien]] *[[Second Battle of Ypres|Ypres 1915]] *[[Frezenberg]], [[Battle of Loos|Loos]] *[[Arras 1917]] *[[Scarpe 1917]] *[[Ypres 1917]] *[[Broodseinde]] *[[Poelcappelle]] *[[Battle of Passchendaele|Passchendaele]] *[[Second Battle of the Somme (1918)|Somme 1918]] *[[First Battle of the Somme (1918)|St Quentin]] *[[Operation Michael|Avre]] *[[Battle of Amiens (1918)|Amiens]] *[[Hindenburg Line]], [[Beaurevoir]] *[[Cambrai 1918]], [[Sambre]] *[[Pursuit to Mons]] *[[France and Flanders 1914–18]] *[[Second World War]]: *[[Mont Pincon]] *[[Souleuvre]] *[[Noireau Crossing]] *[[Amiens 1944]] *[[Brussels]] *[[Neerpelt]] *[[Nederrijn]] *[[Lingen]] *[[Veghel]] *[[Nijmegen]] *[[Rhine]] *[[County of Bentheim (district)|Bentheim]] *[[North-West Europe 1944–1945]] *[[Baghdad 1941]] *[[Iraq 1941]] *[[Palmyra]] *[[Syria 1941]] *[[Msus]] *[[Battle of Gazala|Gazala]] *[[Knightsbridge War Cemetery|Knightsbridge]] *[[Defence of Alamein Line]] *[[Second Battle of El Alamein|El Alamein]] *[[Battle of El Agheila|El Agheila]] *[[Advance on Tripoli]] *[[North Africa 1941–43]] *[[Sicily 1943]] *[[Arezzo]] *Advance to [[Florence]] *[[Gothic Line]] *[[Italy 1943–44]] *Post-Second World War *[[Falkland Islands 1982]] *[[2003 invasion of Iraq|Iraq 2003]] }} | notable_commanders = | identification_symbol = [[Image:GuardsTRF.svg|75px]] | identification_symbol_label = Tactical Recognition Flash | identification_symbol_2 = [[French Imperial Eagle|Waterloo Eagle]]<br />(from [[1st The Royal Dragoons]]) | identification_symbol_2_label = Arm Badge | identification_symbol_4 = RHG/D | identification_symbol_4_label = Abbreviation | current_commander = | ceremonial_chief = [[Charles III]] | ceremonial_chief_label = Colonel-in-Chief | colonel_of_the_regiment = [[Anne, Princess Royal]] }} '''The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons)''' (RHG/D) is a [[Cavalry regiments of the British Army|cavalry regiment]] of the [[British Army]], part of the [[Household Cavalry]]. The [[Colonel (United Kingdom)#Colonel of the Regiment|Colonel of the Regiment]] is [[Anne, Princess Royal]]. It is the second-most senior regiment in the British Army.
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