Bearskins, Bayonets & Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 4
Bearskins, Bayonets and Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum
English - April 20, 2020 08:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBArts guards grenadier coldstream scots irish welsh army military museum queen pageantry Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Bearskins, Bayonets & Bravery - Notes from The Guards Museum Episode 1
This week the Director looks at the next stage in the virtual tour of the museum galleries and describes the elevation of John Churchill of The First Guards to become the first Duke of Marlborough and a favourite of Queen Anne. We hear about Marlborough's many battles and about some of the other Guards officers who fought with him. The episode starts with the Director recounting a story about when Boris Johnson came to dinner in the museum!