Then I shall oblige you with more uniforms.
First though. What a beautiful sight! What a magnificent chalup.
Notice the flags having three points. The two-pointed dove-tail flag is the most common, because that's the flag that fly from navy ships and official buildings like barracks, navy stations, palaces and so on. But when the big show it is on it's three points. And the Scandinavian cross-banners are they are called, conveniently allow that to be a natural thing to do. And Indeed I believe the concept of flags with three tails/points is not used outside Scandinavia.
When a ship or chalup for that matter enter a foreign harbor it fly the national flag from the stern, but also the flag of the country that is visited from the front. If there is a picture of Dannebrog sailing into Stockholm harbor you will notice that.
What is interestingly is that the Swedish chalup fly the Swedish flag as well as the flag of the Danish king to the fore, that's because the chalup is Swedish territory, but transporting a foreign monarch/head of state.
Of course FX&QM were received by an honor guard. Denmark has two guards regiments, and so has Sweden. But Sweden also has Drabant Corps, more on them later if they appear. Denmark also used to have a similar corps but they were disbanded some 100 years ago.
First we have the cavalry:
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They are light dragoons as you can tell from their headgear with the plumage perched on a spike. The uniforms are inspired by Prussian uniforms from the last half of the 1800s.
Being dragoons (all-purpose cavalry) they are armed with light straight swords, rather than sabers. Also being light dragoons they are armed with short carbines. The cavalry model of the Swedish Mauser (IIRC 6.5 mm) which again is a Swedish copy, albeit in a smaller caliber, of the German Mauser 98K.
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Then we have the other guards regiment. They are or at least used to be grenadiers = heavy infantry. You can tell from their bearskin caps. They too wear Prussian inspired uniforms.
They are armed with the Swedish version of the Mauser 98K. Which is a very elegant weapon, aesthetically pleasing to perform drill with and somewhat easier to handle on a parade-ground than a modern assault rifle. The Danish Lifeguard Regiment in comparison use assault rifles, albeit with an extended butt-stock and a five round magazine. The reason is simplicity: You don't have to train the recruits in using two very different rifles. But the Swedes as you can tell have retained their bolt-action rifles.
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