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Royal Guard (Spain)

Independent regiment of the Spanish Armed Forces

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 13, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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The Royal Guard is an independent regiment of the Spanish Armed Forces that is dedicated to the protection of the King of Spain and members of the Spanish royal family. It is currently composed of 1,500 troops. While the Guard participates in parades and other ceremonial events, it is a fully functional combat unit. Its members are recruited from the ranks of all three branches of the Spanish Armed Forces and receive the same combat training as regular soldiers.

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The public source identifies “Royal Guard (Spain)” as independent regiment of the Spanish Armed Forces. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Royal, Guard and Spain.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 79-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Royal, Guard and Spain providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Royal Guard (Spain)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.