Brewer's: Household Troops

Those troops whose special duty it is to attend the sovereign and guard the metropolis. They consist of the 1st and 2nd Life-guards, the Royal Horseguards, and the three regiments of Footguards called the Grenadier, Coldstream, and Scots Fusilier Guards.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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