Changing into a Scots Guardsman is remarkably easy: Merely be part of the British Army (they’ve an internet site explaining numerous profession choices), join the infantry (all royal guards are infantry models), after which, as your profession progresses, angle for a job as a royal guard. When you meet the bodily necessities and your superiors contemplate you a very good match (and if there are openings), you are in. You do not have to be Scottish, and certainly, you do not even need to be British; just lately a Canadian soldier was appointed to the ranks of the royal guard, in accordance with CBC News, owing to a reciprocal relationship between the British Army and people of different Commonwealth armies.
In fact, you will not be paid a lot, in accordance with Certainly UK (even officers make much less on common than common Britons), you will have to face completely nonetheless for 2 or extra hours at a time, you will need to take care of vacationers attempting to get you to interrupt character (so to talk). And when you do break character, your pay can be docked. Additional nonetheless, you will be anticipated to put on your finery, as much as and together with the bearskin hat, no matter how sizzling it’s. Alternatively, you will occupy a publicly going through function cemented by centuries of custom, and you will be the literal face of the British navy.
