Both armies have been shoulder to shoulder through many extreme severe hardships. I have worked more than a decade with French officers and I can tell that there is, in the French Army, a deep sense of respect for our British comrades-in-arms.

@malietoasamoa1301

3 ай бұрын

Tell that to the French at Dunkirk

@tetedebocal

2 ай бұрын

@@malietoasamoa1301 Tell us what? That it was thanks to the 40,000,000 brave French soldiers that the evacuation was possible? Many people seem to have forgotten this "precision"... Nor have we forgotten the strategic error of Mers el-Kébir... Nevertheless, we French have not forgotten the valiant British and Commonwealth soldiers who took part in our liberation. French friendship ;) .

@malietoasamoa1301

2 ай бұрын

@tetedebocal so many were left behind the British pretty much ditch them there yea there are a few cases of the French also escape but they were left there alone to be over runned by the Germans but eh they made up for it during D Day🤷‍♂️

@romrom9761

Ай бұрын

@@malietoasamoa1301 why are you saying that ? Frenchs did their Job to avoid the total loss of British army.

@malietoasamoa1301

Ай бұрын

@@romrom9761 Yeah, and were left there stranded even though British propaganda at the time told everyone that they'll go together. I bet if you were French back in the day, you would feel betrayed, but eh, they got liberated at the end of the day

Great to see. Welcome French. Glad to serve with you.

@C.P.-mj4ft

3 ай бұрын

Welcome to you too in France. Glad to see our countries' bonds.

@jean-Pierre-bt8xw

3 ай бұрын

Merci. Thank you... only fools to mock both french and British when they walk shoulder to shoulder.

Fought each others for a 100 years and still respect each others militaries. Now brothers in arms.

@aage3060

12 күн бұрын

I think French and English are historically and even biologically close nations. Both had celtic substrate which at first mixed with romans and later diluted with germanic influx. The difference is that one of them got their languages germanized. Anyways, for me, a person of non-french and non british background it is nice to watch how two nations enjoying good relations!

Nice to be allies! What a great look the French have!!

Amazing ! love to our british friends from france !

@composimmonite3918

3 ай бұрын

Et amour à nos frères et sœurs français, du Royaume-Uni!

Everyone well turned out so smart credit to them all

Vive La France and God save the King!

When you type in youtube: La Marseille anthem in Buckingham Palace, or Wellington Barracks French Guards Changing of Guards, something magic happends.

About time the French and the British make friends, there are a lot of real enemies around. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" is an ancient proverb which suggests that two parties can or should work together against a common enemy.

@biddyboy1570

3 ай бұрын

This is to celebrate 120 years of the greatest friendship.

@onotad

3 ай бұрын

@@biddyboy1570 The friendship is not always obvious. But I hope it will prevail between the two countries.

@onotad

3 ай бұрын

I hope so too, and I´m neither French nor British but I recognize the need for solidarity in these troubled times.

@chrisrobert5252

3 ай бұрын

By way of reconciliation after 8 centuries of war, the French and British fought together to limit Russian expansionism in Crimea in 1854-55. History could repeat itself.

@yannrousseau5437

3 ай бұрын

Slavia 🇺🇦

Great to see history

Magnifique idée !

Great opportunity to introduce the French to London tourists. They'll never forget the experience 😏

Both the French and British soldiers should feel proud of their part in this historical event!

British Army 🤝French Troops Historic

@Drako_Strike

3 ай бұрын

Really ? When ? Je suis français, nous avons passé notre histoire à combattre la Grande Bretagne

@etorepugatti9196

3 ай бұрын

@@Drako_Strike Et les 120 dernières années ? L'histoire doit être étudiée et comprise pour ne pas commettre les mêmes erreurs, que ceux qui ont signés cette entente soient remerciés.

@battles146

3 ай бұрын

@@etorepugatti9196 100%

@ronald5204

3 ай бұрын

@@etorepugatti9196 😉👍

France are the first non commonwealth country in the world to be given this honour. Remember Macron, to you she was your queen, to us she was THE Queen.

@christophermichaelclarence6003

3 ай бұрын

Indeed. France is actually not part of the Commonwealth (only the English speaking countries) . France has his Colonial Empire which French Overseas Territory (Departements Outre Mer) This is special occasion and unlike any event we've ever seen It's been almost 2 years since the passing of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II who achieved the record as the Longest Reigning Monarchy in History (70 years). We deeply missed her

@douglasspencer745

3 ай бұрын

@@christophermichaelclarence6003that’s not true any longer, Togo Gabon French and Rwandan speak French and English and Mozambique speaks Portuguese. All now members of the Commonwealth. Countries seeking to join are South Sudan English and Burundi speak French and English. I’m thinking, the only colonial empire that created a commonwealth, where countries who were themselves colonised by other European empires, are asking to join.

@christophermichaelclarence6003

3 ай бұрын

@@douglasspencer745 Didn’t know that. Interesting intel

@t.g.5256

3 ай бұрын

By the way, there were british troops guarding the Elysées for the first time aswell, so it goes both ways

@christophermichaelclarence6003

3 ай бұрын

@@t.g.5256 Someone here finally noticed that. Both ways, indeed

Great to see some French female troops.Vive La France!😀

quite a history between these 2 great countries - research it - The actual ceremonies on April Monday 8th will see British guards take part in the changing of the guard outside the Elysee Palace of President Emmanuel Macron, and his French guards do the same outside Buckingham Palace in London of King Charles III. the central states of France and England, later Britain, fought 41 wars against each other between the first Anglo-French War in 1109 and the Hundred Days in 1815. On average that's a war every 17.3 years. In total France won 24 wars, England/Britain won 11 and 6 were a tie. The Hundred Years' War (1337-1453) was a series of conflicts fought between England and France over succession to the French throne. It lasted 116 years and saw many major battles - from the battle of Crécy in 1346 to the battle of Agincourt in 1415, which was a major English victory over the French.

@anniesaintotte9037

3 ай бұрын

Guerre de cent ans fut gagnée par les Français en 1453 à Castillon !

@C.P.-mj4ft

3 ай бұрын

Yes, you remember Crécy and Azincourt. We remember Castillon. But at the end of it, we won that war. Let's forget the past. This was such a long time ago.

@Thomas-uu9ex

3 ай бұрын

La bataille de Formigny as Well… 😊

@Thomas-uu9ex

3 ай бұрын

Mais non, n’oublions pas, c’est l’histoire et avec nos amis (maintenant) Anglais et Britanniques c’est un vrai plaisir. 😊

@ludo5327

3 ай бұрын

la guerre entre l Angleterre et la France continue chaque années et cela s appelle le "Crunch" 15 contre 15 🏉🏉🏉🏉 the war between England and France continues every year and it is called the "Crunch" 15 against 15

Good to see these two countries despite many years of conflict in the past they still have each other. Remember, the French imperial Guards considered to be the best during 18th century, but later on defeated by the Duke of Wellington with his Red Coat army together withe the Great Prussian Army in the Battle of Waterloo. Nevertheless British and French now considered brothers.

@christianibarbia9380

3 ай бұрын

you are right.. however just consider that the Brits would have lost if Blucher had not arrived on time !

@HighlandFace94

3 ай бұрын

@@Hypersonic-es6vh i watched many vudeos about the waterloo battle. When the prussians driven back and were on retreat they informed wellington that they will returned. So wellington stand his ground and never retreat even after many waves of attack by the french army. Wellingtons army were the made the elite guards of napoleon to retreat, first time in the battle that the elite emperial guards driven back. Then the prussians came and together they made a complete defeat on the french army of napoleon

@thanhhoangnguyen4754

3 ай бұрын

​@@HighlandFace94 I mean that the whole point of Wellington plan. If the Prussian didn't return then he wouldn't be there. He is not stupid enough to face Napoleon face on alone. First rule never engage Napoleon alone.

@HighlandFace94

3 ай бұрын

@@thanhhoangnguyen4754 yeah, look at the size of each army, the combined English and Prussian equivalent to Napoleon's army, so understood that they must be combined together inorder to match the size of that Napoleon. Look at the Peninsular War, Wellington command alone An Army equivalent to French in Spain and he defeated the French there.

Je n'ai jamais une poignée de main aussi llong et chaleureuse puisse cette entend cordiale puisse perdurer dans le temps 🇨🇵❤️🇬🇧

At 15th June 2023 there was a ceremony with British and Portuguese military in the presence of both Heads of State to celebrate 650 years of British-Portuguese Alliance. This one is for the 120th anniversary of the Entente Cordiale.

@steviegee7116

3 ай бұрын

Yeah but at least Portugal gave the brits Port! Lol

@francoisdebellefroid2268

3 ай бұрын

What would have happened to Winston Churchill (and therefore to Britain) without Pol Roger? 😅

@steviegee7116

3 ай бұрын

Funny one of my fav champagne's too! (Bollinger my fav!)

@C.P.-mj4ft

3 ай бұрын

@@steviegee7116 And the French claret.

@ajarnwordsmith628

3 ай бұрын

Mine's a pint of Cockburn's, matey​@@steviegee7116

Thanks God

Magnifique

Good to see the French, but a bit of figitting on.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤❤❤❤❤🇺🇸FANTASTIC

Lots of love to my british friends from France 🇫🇷

Great display, something we should all be proud of. Who was with the Duke of Edinborough? She obviosly had no idea what was happening or what she should do when inspecting the guards. French Ambassador perhaps?

@C.P.-mj4ft

3 ай бұрын

I guess.

@Thomas-uu9ex

3 ай бұрын

Je crois aussi oui

@brunol-p_g8800

3 ай бұрын

She is the French ambassador to the UK. The same happened in France, the UK embassador didn’t really know how to behave. I guess both women, who don’t have any military background, don’t know how to act in these situations.

Wonderful

Be interesting to compare the battle honours on British Regimental Colours to that of the French 🤔

@christianibarbia9380

3 ай бұрын

look: at the time of Napoléon, it was always displayed on the french flag : "the Emperor to the "x cavalry regiment" or "x infantry regiment".. looking like a gift offered by the Emperor, or the Consul (before being Emperor) to the military unit.. on the flag displayed today, you could read : " The French Republic to the 1st Foot republican guard regiment" (or something looking like ..)

120 years with no war between these 2 nations. Maybe a historic record since the boat was invented ! 😅

The lion and the cockerel 🇬🇧🇫🇷

Now I want a Central parade. Traditional German, Bulgarian, Austrian uniforms etc.

@kathleenfederl5121

3 ай бұрын

What a great idea.🇬🇧

Somethings we do get right .

They are very smart....

Ah la bravo magnifique marseillaise

Vive l’Entente Cordiale 🇬🇧🇫🇷

Merveilleux de voir nos parades ensemble, français et britanniques, amis pour longtemps!

La Marseillaise is well played, especially compared to other military renditions around the world

Shame Lizzy cannot see this

@tophatanimation8748

3 ай бұрын

I doubt she would have allowed it. She was true to her Coronation oath, unlike others.

Does anyone know the name of “The Troop” played by the Band of the Coldstream Guards

@robertmclellan3658

3 ай бұрын

That was the Grenadier band in this video.

@solamano7239

3 ай бұрын

The program for the part with the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh (thanks to a kind commentator/WE) For information, the music programme for the ceremony was as follows: March to Buckingham Palace: The Bond of Friendship (Mackenzie Rogan), Le Reve Passe (Krier/Helmer), Static Music Marche Lorraine (Ganne) Royal Salute: French and UK National Anthems Inspection of the Guards: L’Entente Cordiale (Keith) Royal Salute: French and UK National Anthems March to Wellington Barracks: L’Entente Cordiale March (Allier), The Great Little Army (Alford)

Always remember what a corean friend told me : for an asian studient, french, english, german, spanish are nearly the same languages. Learning one is very difficult for asians. But if you speak one european language fluently, you get the others very quickly.

❤❤❤❤❤

Things are bad when the French make up the Guard mounts 😊😊😅

I see some of the musicians already have beards inline with the new policy….

I see them here, I see them there. Those Frenchies are everywhere - The Scarlet Pimpinol.

@brunol-p_g8800

3 ай бұрын

Indeed they are everywhere, even what is written on the coat of arms of the UK is written in French.

@C.P.-mj4ft

3 ай бұрын

Horrible Frogs. Even God save the king is a French anthem😀

They're not the first Frenchies to stand guard at Buckingham Palace. In 1940 and in 2014 the French Canadians of the Royal 22nd Regiment carried out the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace for 1 week. excuse my broken English from French Canada !

Was this a rehearsal?

This was a great occasion,who were the civilians on the Dias?

@e.chambers2973

3 ай бұрын

It's a rehearsal! The people on the dias are stand-ins. The event is on Monday, April 08, and it will involve about 40 VIPs including the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh.the UK Chief of General Staff (CGS), General Sir Patrick Sanders, the French Chief of the Army Staff, General Pierre Schill, and the French ambassador to the UK Helene Duchene. A reciprocal event is being staged earlier the same day in Paris at the Elysee Palace with No.7 Company Coldstream Guards and attended by French President Emmanuel Macron. It's a public Anglo-French diplomatic event to mark the 120 anniversary of the Anglo-French Entente Cordiale. The French contingent practicing in the forecourt of B.P. are with the Garde Républicaine, the military group responsible for law enforcement, security and ceremonial duties at national palaces in Paris. Basically it's a parade and a troop review; the Garde Républicaine won't be doing guard duty at B.P. That is a privilege restricted to select members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces.

@christianibarbia9380

3 ай бұрын

@@e.chambers2973 and as french guy, for me it is a privilege the french troops being invited in U.K. i believe it is an honor for us.. french troop participating is a platoon of the 1st Regiment of the foot Republican Guard...

so I'm not familiar with how it all works, does that mean the garde républicaine is gonna assume guard of some of UK position and vice versa? And if so does it last or it's just for the ceremony?

@solamano7239

3 ай бұрын

Just for the 8th I think. 120th Anniversary.

@devanis

3 ай бұрын

@@solamano7239 thx :)

@solamano7239

3 ай бұрын

I forgot to add that it was reciprocal too, with British troops in Paris, at the Elysée.

Let’s hope they brought their own Chefs with them!

@solamano7239

3 ай бұрын

That's probably the information relayed during the "long handshake".

Who are the civilians?

Par cette jolie cérémonie diplomatique et militaire : « Mille ans d’Histoire nous contemplent » l’air de rien …🤔

Par contre les deux bouffons qui se marrent à partir de 3:00 c'est insupportable

@user-cv3mg3qb5j

3 ай бұрын

Le touriste français par excellence avec sans doute, un sac à dos quechua en prime 🤦🤦

@sagma485

3 ай бұрын

Bien d'accord 😂

Who is the man with the pînk tie??

@solamano7239

3 ай бұрын

I think that he's some new pup just elected.

Who is the kid that inspected the French trips?

@Bruno-tm3xo

3 ай бұрын

😅😅😅

19:51

Doesn’t show them mounting the guard.

I wish France was a Monarch today. Its such a shame its not anymore.

@francinesicard464

3 ай бұрын

As much as we admired and respected Queen Elizabeth, no thank you.😃😃

@christophermichaelclarence6003

3 ай бұрын

@@francinesicard464Your French Republic sucks

@christophermichaelclarence6003

3 ай бұрын

@@francinesicard464Overthrowing your French Monarchy countless times in a bloody way is dreadful and outrageous. The French Revolution 1789-1794 went too far. No need the behead the King of France Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette who were sentenced to dezt in 1792

@justeunfrancais

3 ай бұрын

I wish too, but the real question is : Capet-Bourbon ? or Bonaparte ?

@christophermichaelclarence6003

3 ай бұрын

@@justeunfrancaisHouse Capet doesn’t anymore. Only House of Bourbon (main branch) and House of Orleans (sibling) remain

British band the best🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Who,is the english politic or member of royal family?

Bitter enemies for a millennium, staunch allies for a century.

Well, I must say those French do you know how to dress.

The world turned upside down

Napoleon: finally!!!!!

viva la fracccc,,,,viva la libertieee......viva la napoleonnnnnnn

So the band is british?

@christophermichaelclarence6003

3 ай бұрын

The Marching Band is British with company of French RepublicanGuards. This special event is to celebrate the Entente Cordiale, Franco British alliance, first established in 1904. They carry on it on WW2 with Winston Churchill but the French General Charles de Gaulle was against it.

@robertmclellan3658

3 ай бұрын

@@christophermichaelclarence6003 The band is entirely British.

@christophermichaelclarence6003

3 ай бұрын

@@robertmclellan3658 My bad. I’ll rectify my mistake

@normplatt7549

3 ай бұрын

When in Britan , Don't their bands have home rights! Salute!

@LB-my1ej

3 ай бұрын

Yes

The real ceremony was in the presence of Prince Edward and her spouse. So what is this one?

What now? France tryna leave the EU too?

They were just pissing💂🏻

Napoleon be screaming in his grave lol

Difference between our guards and the french there marching so good

Excellente initiative: les gentils "frenchies" (fond de sauce antimilitariste) qui ne se lèveront pas un 11 novembre pour assister à un défilé commémoratif trouveront ici l'occasion de s'émouvoir., le temps d'une photo souvenir, lors de leur visite à Londres. Quant aux anglais (les gentils "engliches") , cela pimente la cérémonie traditionnelle. C'est bon pour le tourisme. Bon, je bavasse....Car l'essentiel, évidemment, c'est le dans le week-end together.

Plus de panache en Angleterre avec plus de public 👌👌English touch ❤

@ClemFromBrittany

3 ай бұрын

Il y a toujours du monde aux grilles

Tourists are surely wondering why french military participate in that ceremony 🤔 well... if they only understand this fellows are french ! 😅

On va couper le rosbeef, c'est dimanche.

lets be honest, the only reason the French and Brits became such good friends was because of Germany

@jbqu3142

3 ай бұрын

During WW2, Churchill and DeGaulle came close to unify UK and France as one entity.

Yesss sure !’ Merci les Brit de nous avoir abandonné en 1940 et d’avoir coulé la flotte française. should be ashamed to parade among our enemies

@ericst-laurent8161

Ай бұрын

Je me demande lequel des deux a abandonne l'autre en 1940 😅

I like the French Army swords the soldiers ones not the officers

Funny the 1st republican s guard regiment is securing a king

@jameslynch7826

3 ай бұрын

The French contingent did not perform any public duties. They did not at any moment guard The King nor any of the Royal Palaces. They were participating in a march past . Just to clarify.

Remember the Falklands. It's not so cordial.

@ph390

3 ай бұрын

and the RAF bombings during WW2 on French civilians, were they cordial...????😠

@PotatoSalad614

3 ай бұрын

@@ph390 they were bombing German targets in France

@CCC-nf3bk

3 ай бұрын

@@PotatoSalad614 and yet 70 000 French civilians died in them. You could say collateral damages i suppose.

Les commentaires derrière sont tellement marrants " imagine ya a reine qui sort, ah mais elle morte chui con" mddrrr

Ask them to stop the boats

@composimmonite3918

3 ай бұрын

Wtf should they?

@ThePalaeontologist

3 ай бұрын

​@@composimmonite3918 Maybe because the British government and British taxpayer have been giving the French government hundreds of millions of pounds over the past several years to try and help with the problem at their end but there is something fishy going on anyway. If the British try and turn the boats around that'd be called a anti-humanitarian crime, met with endless screeching at home and abroad, and if the Royal Navy enter French territorial waters the French could get quite upset about it (and vice-versa) But the thing is, the British taxpayer literally does spend several tens of millions of pounds per year on the issue and nothing is happening. French ships do handovers with British ships in the middle of the English Channel. It's like a ferry service now. The British taxpayer's money is mostly being spent on completely different things, it's a scam. Please do not interpret this as me being argumentative or unreasonable, I am just answering your rather strongly put question to the person whom commented. It is absolutely beyond doubt that the situation is only getting worse and all the French have done is pretend to want to stop the problem. Clearly, the French don't want the migrants milling around in Calais etc either so they will actively try and nudge them into the UK. However, illegal NGO's from _both_ the UK and France are flying in the face of the will of the public and aiding and abetting the human trafficking and subversion of British border enforcement, as well as flouting our nation openly. There are a lot of middle-class activists involved, whom don't care about Britain or France, whom just want infinity migrants to make themselves feel noble and righteous. If the British and French governments really wanted to stop it they could overnight. But they won't. Go figure. All this Entente Cordiale stuff is lovely and everything and I approve of it strongly, as it's historically important and should be upheld, however, inevitably the political realities of the current era are unavoidable.

Only way the french would get soldiers on Uk shore ….probably arrived in a dingy…

Meanwhile in the REAL world.....

Everybody taking shitty videos with their cell phones.

The onlookers don’t look very diverse. Where are all the black British

I don' t like British and French never able to win a war without american aid!

@PotatoSalad614

3 ай бұрын

America turning up late in every war

@flaviopolli9402

3 ай бұрын

@@PotatoSalad614 but without america British and French never able to win! Study the history before talking!

@PotatoSalad614

3 ай бұрын

@@flaviopolli9402 of course they would win, it’s the Americans who only know Hollywood version of history

@CCC-nf3bk

3 ай бұрын

@@flaviopolli9402 That's what allies are for ? No need to undermine the efforts of everyone.

@flaviopolli9402

3 ай бұрын

@@CCC-nf3bk British and french never able to win a war without americans! Please back to school and study ti improve tour culturali level, now you don' t have!!!

Ah yes the pesky French

Macron must have confused Buckingham Palace with Ukraine.

The French are smart but not too disciplined. They keep turning their heads and twitching plus they need hands on shoulder to determine standing distance, British troops never need this.

@DylanSargesson

3 ай бұрын

This is a rehearsal for something they'll do once, makes sense they'd not be perfect compared to Regiments that do it every day

@privatewill3323

3 ай бұрын

Its important to note that the french unit that will be partaking is from the Garde Républicaine of the Gendarmerie, They're trained in both Civil and Military Policing and serve in a real security role, they're trained to look around and take note, similar to how the Foot and Horse Guards acted before their security duties were taken from them by Armed Police

@LB-my1ej

3 ай бұрын

@@privatewill3323 thank you for telling me that, I was being over critical and I now realise that was unfair.

@LB-my1ej

3 ай бұрын

@@DylanSargesson you’re quite right of course, I was being over critical and unfair.

@christianibarbia9380

3 ай бұрын

you are absolutely right... and as a french guy, i do regreat it !