A royal guard is a group of military bodyguards, soldiers or armed retainers responsible for the protection of a royal family member, such as a king or queen, or prince or princess. They often are an elite unit of the regular armed forces, or are designated as such, and may maintain special rights or privileges.
King's Guards at Buckingham Palace
The Palace Guard by Ernst Rudolf.
Royal Guards in Baroda
The French Guards at Fontenoy in 1745.
A bodyguard is a type of security guard, government law enforcement officer, or servicemember who protects a person or a group of people — usually witnesses, high-ranking public officials or officers, wealthy people, and celebrities — from danger: generally theft, assault, kidnapping, assassination, harassment, loss of confidential information, threats, or other criminal offences. The personnel team that protects a VIP is often referred to as the VIP's security detail.
Bodyguards with President Ronald Reagan moments before he was shot in March 1981
U.S. Secret Service agents guarding U.S. President Barack Obama
Walter B. Slocombe, the U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy with his bodyguard in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1996. The bodyguard is armed with an M-16, a 5.56 mm, magazine-fed, select-fire rifle.
A team of bodyguards protecting Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff during her inaugural ceremony.