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==History== |
==History== |
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[[File:The President, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil with Queen Elizabeth |
[[File:The President, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil with Queen Elizabeth-II and Prince of Wales before the State Banquet hosted by The Queen Elizabeth-II at Windsor Castle, in London on October 27, 2009.jpg|thumb|The Duke of Edinburgh (far right) wearing the modern version at a state dinner in 2009]] |
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The uniform was introduced by [[George III of the United Kingdom|King George III]] in 1777.<ref>Jeremy Black, ''George III: America's Last King'' (New Haven: Princeton University Press, 2006), 118 and 428.</ref> The full dress version, which had a good deal of gold braid about it, did not survive beyond 1936, but the undress version, introduced in 1798,<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=London Friday May 18 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000230/17980519/014/0003 |newspaper=Hampshire Chronicle | location=England |date=19 May 1798 |access-date=28 January 2020 |via=British Newspaper Archive }}</ref> is still worn today: a dark blue [[jacket]] with red [[Facing colour|facings]]. It is now worn only at Windsor Castle, and since the reign of [[Edward VII of the United Kingdom|King Edward VII]], it has generally been worn only as evening dress (although [[Charles III of the United Kingdom|King Charles III]] has worn a version of it as a [[Equestrianism|riding]] coat). |
The uniform was introduced by [[George III of the United Kingdom|King George III]] in 1777.<ref>Jeremy Black, ''George III: America's Last King'' (New Haven: Princeton University Press, 2006), 118 and 428.</ref> The full dress version, which had a good deal of gold braid about it, did not survive beyond 1936, but the undress version, introduced in 1798,<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=London Friday May 18 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000230/17980519/014/0003 |newspaper=Hampshire Chronicle | location=England |date=19 May 1798 |access-date=28 January 2020 |via=British Newspaper Archive }}</ref> is still worn today: a dark blue [[jacket]] with red [[Facing colour|facings]]. It is now worn only at Windsor Castle, and since the reign of [[Edward VII of the United Kingdom|King Edward VII]], it has generally been worn only as evening dress (although [[Charles III of the United Kingdom|King Charles III]] has worn a version of it as a [[Equestrianism|riding]] coat). |
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