The ones with the bearskin hats are Grenadier Guards, the second most senior regiment in the British army below the Queen's Life Guards (the ones that look like they're from Minas Tirith) and they are on active duty, both at home and abroad. Yep, those hats are made from bearskin. As in skin from a bear. These soldiers wear a whole bear's outside on their heads. Add to that the live rifles they carry whilst on guard duty and a totally professional dedication to that duty.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'