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Photograph showing the arrival of Queen Elizabeth II, Colonel in Chief, Grenadier Guards, and Prince Philip, Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, to a Garden Party at Burton’s Court in Chelsea for the 2nd Battalion, 7th June 1984. The Queen shakes the hands of some officers in dark blue undress frock coats and peaked caps. Two senior non-commissioned officers in scarlet tunics and peaked caps also wait in line to be introduced. Behind the Queen other officers walk behind her, including Prince Philip. A car can be seen behind them, as well as the trees and buildings surrounding Burton’s Court, opposite the Royal Hospital Chelsea. They are named as (from left to right): RQMS Morris; Sgt Maj Rolfe; Capt Grant Baker, Adjt; Maj Hubert Baillie Sen Maj; Lt Col John O’Connell, Commanding Officer; a Detective; Major James Tedder, Regimental Adjutant; HM The Queen, Colonel in Chief; HRH The Colonel, Prince Philip; Lt Col Blair Stewart Wilson, Scots Guards, Equerry; a Canadian Equerry; Col Andrew Duncan. From an album of 63 photographs of the Grenadier Guards showing parades, training, Royal inspections and group images, taken in Germany, Cyprus and the UK, 1980-89.