Blues and Royals

The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons)
Badge of the regiment
Active	29 March 1969–present
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Type	Horse guards
Role	Armoured reconnaissance and ceremonial
Size	Regiment
Part of	Household Cavalry
Garrison/HQ	RHQ – London Regiment – Windsor/London
Motto(s)	Honi soit qui mal y pense (Middle French for "Shame on anyone who thinks evil of it")[1]
March	Quick – "Quick March of the Blues and Royals" Slow – "Slow March of the Blues and Royals" Trot Past – "Keel Row"
Engagements	Falklands War Mount Kent Skirmish
Battle honours	Pre-First World War: Tangier 1662–1680 Dettingen Warburg Beaumont Willems Fuentes d'Onor Peninsula Waterloo Balaclava Sevastopol Tel el Kebir Egypt 1882 Relief of Ladysmith South Africa 1899–1902 First World War: Mons Le Cateau Retreat from Mons Marne 1914 Aisne 1914 Messines 1914 Armentières 1914 Ypres 1914 Langemarck 1914 Gheluvelt Nonne Bosschen St Julien Ypres 1915 Frezenberg, Loos Arras 1917 Scarpe 1917 Ypres 1917 Broodseinde Poelcappelle Passchendaele Somme 1918 St Quentin Avre Amiens Hindenburg Line, Beaurevoir Cambrai 1918, Sambre Pursuit to Mons France and Flanders 1914–18 Second World War: Mont Pincon Souleuvre Noireau Crossing Amiens 1944 Brussels Neerpelt Nederrijn Lingen Veghel Nijmegen Rhine Bentheim North-West Europe 1944–1945 Baghdad 1941 Iraq 1941 Palmyra Syria 1941 Msus Gazala Knightsbridge Defence of Alamein Line El Alamein El Agheila Advance on Tripoli North Africa 1941–43 Sicily 1943 Arezzo Advance to Florence Gothic Line Italy 1943–44 Post-Second World War Falkland Islands 1982 Iraq 2003
Commanders
Colonel-in-Chief	Charles III
Colonel of the Regiment	Anne, Princess Royal
Insignia
Tactical Recognition Flash
Arm Badge	Waterloo Eagle (from 1st The Royal Dragoons)
Abbreviation	RHG/D

The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons) (RHG/D) is a cavalry regiment of the British Army, part of the Household Cavalry. The Colonel of the Regiment is Anne, Princess Royal. It is the second-most senior regiment in the British Army.