Letters to the Editor

Dressed to impress

WITH regards to the gold knots on ceremonial dress uniform (‘), military lore tells us these were added to stop troops using their sleeves as cleaning cloths for eyes, mouths, noses and even wounds and that it was ‘The Queen’ who requested this of her Household Cavalry Musicians. Which ‘Queen’ is where the contention). As such, the tradition must go back to at least the third Hanoverian king and his wife, Queen Charlotte (1761–1818). Other regiments claim that similar buttons were a Napoleonic rule in the early 1800s. Readers can learn more about our uniforms in a special exhibition this winter.