Gold Stick and Silver Stick

Gold Stick is the name for a servant at the court of the British monarch.

The office has existed since the Tudor period, when two officers became personal bodyguards of the sovereign and received this item. Since the reign of Queen Victoria are the tasks of a purely ceremonial in nature.

The gold sticks are in the monthly change in service. The active gold embroidery under the name of Gold Stick -in- Waiting. They are present at many protocol-related events, such as Trooping the Colour and the annual opening of Parliament. The name was derived from a rod with her ​​golden head, which symbolizes the official power.

The honorary colonel of the Guard cavalry regiments of the British Army are always ex-officio same gold embroidery. These are currently Princess Anne as Honorary Colonel of the Blues and Royals and The Rt Hon General Charles Ronald Llewellyn Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank, GCB, LVO, OBE, to 2001, the highest-ranking officer in the British armed forces, as Honorary Colonel of the Life Guards.

In Scotland, the Captain General of the Royal Company of Archers, currently David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie, KT, GCVO, PC, hold office.

Deputy gold sticks is the Silver Stick -in- Waiting, who perceives less important protocol-related events, such as the reception of a head of state, the tasks alone. This office is always associated with that of the commander of the Household Cavalry.

• Military customs and ritual
• Military (United Kingdom)