Qualla: Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings https://qualla.com/hyde-park-and-regent-s-park-bombings en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/hyde-park-and-regent-s-park-bombings-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings https://qualla.com/hyde-park-and-regent-s-park-bombings Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings: Introduction https://qualla.com/hyde-park-and-regent-s-park-bombings/ Photo credit TheEgyptian, CC BY-SA 3.0. At twenty minutes past ten on a warm Tuesday morning in July 1982, sixteen mounted soldiers of the Blues and Royals were trotting south down South Carriage Drive in Hyde Park, on their daily ride to the Changing of the Guard. They were close enough to Knightsbridge Barracks to hear the city waking up around them. A blue Morris Marina was parked along the route. Inside it, twenty-five pounds of gelignite were packed around thirty pounds of six-inch nails. Someone in the park, watching, pressed a button.

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/hyde-park-and-regent-s-park-bombings-wp/gcpv-hyde-park-and-regents-park-bombings-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings: The Morning Ride https://qualla.com/hyde-park-and-regent-s-park-bombings/ Photo credit TheEgyptian, CC BY-SA 3.0. Three troopers - Roy Bright, Jeffrey Young, and Simon Tipper - died at the scene. Denis Daly, the standard-bearer, lived three days more before his injuries killed him as well. Seven of the cavalry horses died with them. The blast threw nails and shrapnel across the road and into...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/hyde-park-and-regent-s-park-bombings-wp/gcpv-hyde-park-and-regents-park-bombings-the-morning-ride.mp3 0:06 2 full Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings: Sefton https://qualla.com/hyde-park-and-regent-s-park-bombings/ Photo credit TheEgyptian, CC BY-SA 3.0. Among the seven horses killed was a roll call that the regiment still recites: Cedric, Epaulette, Falcon, Rochester, Waterford, Yeastvite, and Zara. The horse that survived was Sefton, a 19-year-old Irish-bred bay belonging to Trooper Michael Pedersen. Sefton took thirty-four wou...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/hyde-park-and-regent-s-park-bombings-wp/gcpv-hyde-park-and-regents-park-bombings-sefton.mp3 0:06 3 full Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings: Regent's Park https://qualla.com/hyde-park-and-regent-s-park-bombings/ Photo credit TheEgyptian, CC BY-SA 3.0. Two hours later, in Regent's Park, the Band of the 1st Battalion, Royal Green Jackets was halfway through a free lunchtime concert. Around a hundred and twenty people had gathered on the deck chairs to listen to selections from Oliver! at the cast-iron Victorian bandstand. The bo...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/hyde-park-and-regent-s-park-bombings-wp/gcpv-hyde-park-and-regents-park-bombings-regents-park.mp3 0:06 4 full Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings: The Long Tail https://qualla.com/hyde-park-and-regent-s-park-bombings/ Photo credit TheEgyptian, CC BY-SA 3.0. The grief did not stop in July 1982. Trooper Pedersen, who survived the Hyde Park blast on Sefton's back, lived for three decades with what his doctors finally named as post-traumatic stress. In September 2012, after his marriage ended, he killed his two children and then himself...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/hyde-park-and-regent-s-park-bombings-wp/gcpv-hyde-park-and-regents-park-bombings-the-long-tail.mp3 0:06 5 full Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings: The Daily Salute https://qualla.com/hyde-park-and-regent-s-park-bombings/ Photo credit TheEgyptian, CC BY-SA 3.0. A simple stone memorial stands today at the edge of South Carriage Drive, on the spot where the cavalry rode that morning. It lists the four soldiers by name. Every weekday, when the Household Cavalry mount changes the guard, the troop reaches that stone and the order is given: e...

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