Editing Coldstream Guards (section)

==Traditions==
[[File:Soldier from No7 Company Coldstream Guards With Regimental Colours MOD 45152569.jpg|thumbnail|[[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|Lieutenant]] of the Coldstream Guards with the [[Regulation Colours|Regimental Colours]].]]

The grouping of buttons on the tunic is a common way to distinguish between the regiments of [[Foot Guards]]. Coldstream buttons are arranged in pairs, and a Star of the [[Order of the Garter|Garter]] is marked on their brassware.<ref name=ceremonial>{{cite web|url=http://www.army.mod.uk/infantry/regiments/24427.aspx|title=Ceremonial duties|publisher=Ministry of Defence|access-date=26 April 2014}}</ref> The Coldstream Guards can also be distinguished from the other Foot Guards by the presence of a red plume ([[hackle]]) on the right side of their bearskins.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Weinreb, Ben |author2=[[Christopher Hibbert|Hibbert, Christopher]] |title=[[The London Encyclopaedia]] |edition=reprint |year=1992 |publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]] |page=409}}</ref>

The regiment is ranked second in the order of precedence, behind the [[Grenadier Guards]]. The regiment have the motto ''Nulli Secundus'' (Second to None), which is a play on the fact that the regiment was originally the "Second Regiment of Foot Guards", a position they have never accepted as the regiment is older than the Grenadier Guards.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.householddivision.org.uk/hq-coldmgds|title=Coldstream Guards|publisher=The Household Division|access-date=11 May 2022}}</ref>

The regiment's nickname is Lilywhites. An ordinary soldier of the regiment is called a Guardsman, a designation granted by King [[George V of the United Kingdom|George V]] after the First World War. The regiment is always referred to as the Coldstream, never as the Coldstreams; likewise, a member of the regiment is referred to as a Coldstreamer.<ref name=ceremonial/>