The Queen's Cavalry - Episode Guide

Practicing for the State Opening of Parliament in the dead of the night - can 150 cavalrymen trotting through central London go unnoticed?

Following the progress of trainee riders, and life in the Household Cavalry. Features a tough competition to be the smartest trooper in the HC - Princess Elizabeth Cup.

It's 4pm and the daily inspection of the Queen's Life Guard. A tank is lost in Farnham's one-way system. And the trainee horsemen, paying up 5 to pounds when they fall off, start jumping school.

Explores the two sides of the Household Cavalry in action, the armoured regiment on manoeuvre in Canada, and the trainees preparing to guard the Queen for the first time.

Looking behind the scenes at life in the Household Cavalry. The story of some famous horses of the past and follows the latest equine recruit, Freddy.

The Household Cavalry are practising for the Queen's Birthday Parade and the trainees have reached the hardest part of their training.

Trainee troopers take their final exam, the armoured regiment fire live shells on the firing range and the regiment's historian relates their role in the battle of Waterloo.

The surviving trainee riders - who've made it through one of the army's toughest courses - finally graduate. They parade in full ceremonial kit in front of their parents.