What is the function of this ritual? My father was in a British Army ceremonial regiment; I doubt he could have said.pic.twitter.com/8Ft9hN0POz
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It has practical functions (tourist revenue, actual relief of guards), but that is not the reason it persists. Nor “mere tradition.”
Tradition does not mean “doing it because we have always done that”—this is a modernist caricature/misunderstanding of tradition.
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