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Royal traditionsBritain is a royal country. The British king or queen has a place in London – Buckingham Palace. Queen Elizabeth lives there now. Tourists stand outside and see the Changing of the Guard. There are always guardsmen outside the palace. Every day a new guard of thirty guardsmen marches to the palace and takes the place of the “old guard”. The changing of the guard is not a big ceremony. London has important royal ceremonies too. The State Opening of Parliament and the Trooping of the Colour are too of these. Parliament, not the Royal Family, controls modern Britain. But traditionally the Queen opens Parliament every autumn. She travels from Buckingham Palace to the House of Parliament in a good carriage – the Irish State Coach. At the Houses of Parliament the Queen sits on a “throne” in the House of Lords and reads the “Queen’s Speech”. At the State Opening of Parliament the Queen wears a crown. The Trooping of the Colour. The Queen is the only person in Britain with two birthdays. Her real birthday is on April 21st, but she has an “official” birthday, too. That’s on the second Saturday in June. And on the Queen’s official birthday, there’s a traditional ceremony called the Trooping of the Colour. It’s a big Parade in London. A “regiment” of the Queen’s soldiers, the Guards, march in front of her. At the front of the Parade is the regiment’s flag or “colour”. The Guards are trooping the colour. Millions of people at home watch it on television. Maundy Money. Maundy (страстный) Thursday is the day before Good Friday, at Easter. On that das the Queen gives Maundy money to a group of old people. This tradition is over 1,000 years old. At one time the king or queen washed the feet of poor, old people on Maundy Thursday. That stopped in 1754. The Queen’s Telegram. This custom is not very old, but it’s for very old people. On his or her one hundredth birthday, a British person gets a telegram from the Queen. The British people like the Queen and the royal family. They like important occasions too.
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