Viscount Marsham

[colinp]

From the Court Circular:

12 June 2021

Windsor Castle

Her Majesty was present at a Military Ceremony in the Quadrangle of Windsor Castle this morning to mark The Queen's Official Birthday at which The Queen's Colour of F Company Scots Guards was Paraded, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Viscount David Marsham [sic !!!!!!!!!] (Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards).

[colinp]

also a "sic" for Coldstream Guards?

[john]

Not sure whether he is the commanding officer of the 1st Batalion, but he is in the Coldstream Gurads since 1 August 2018. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/62413/supplement/16640

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Viscount Marsham would have been "The Field Officer In Brigade Waiting"  - it is customary for the Commanding Officer of the battalion whose colour is being trooped to command the Parade as Field Officer in Brigade Waiting.

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Viscount Marsham and his family are very good friends of TRH The Duke & Duchess of Cambridge. 

His sister - Lady Laura Meade (nee Marsham) is godmother to HRH Prince Louis of Cambridge, while her husband James Meade (son of Richard Meade - a former boyfriend of HRH The Princess Royal) is godfather to Princess Charlotte of Cambridge.

[john]

That is somehow odd, as the Scots Guards were trooping their Colour, not the Coldstream Guards.

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On Parade - Her Majesty The Queen's Birthday Parade 2021 - The Household Division - Official site - lists the entire parade personnel

A Celebration of the Official Birthday of Her Majesty The Queen - Trooping the Scots Guards Colour | The British Army (mod.uk)

Lieutenant Colonel David Marsham, 44, from King’s Lynn, has 20 years of operational service in Northern Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan, and in the past year was commanding troops employed in the COVID testing programme in the NW of England. He is this year’s Field Officer in Brigade Waiting – the officer commanding the Queen’s Birthday Parade. By remarkable coincidence, in 1920, as Britain was coming out of the last pandemic, Viscount Marsham, David’s direct ancestor, was Captain of the Escort on the King’s Birthday Parade.