England fancies itself as a modern dynamic nation. But every so often it descends into a jolly and eccentric medieval cosplay.
in the U.K. on Wednesday, as London ground to a halt for a day of pomp, ceremony, gun salutes, mock hostage taking, and slammed doors in a series of extraordinary and ancient customs designed to telegraph lawmakers’ independence from the Crown.
By then, the basements of the Houses of Parliament had been ceremonially searched by the Yeomen of the Guard, dressed in their distinctive Tudor-style scarlet uniforms. The symbolic gesture commemorates the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605, when Guy Fawkes attempted to blow up the Westminster Palaces.
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