The 400-year-old reason Parliament gets searched🤯

Added: 2026-05-29

[00:00:00]Why do guards [music] inspect Parliament before the king arrives? Before the British monarch enters Parliament for the state opening, guards secretly search the entire building for explosives, and [music] it all goes back to a terrifying assassination plot in British history. In 1605, a man named Guy Fawkes planned to blow up Parliament during the state opening ceremony.

[00:00:18][music] Their goal was to kill King James the First, the royal family, and members of Parliament all at once.

[00:00:24]Barrels of gunpowder were hidden beneath [music] the House of Lords, ready to destroy the entire building. But just hours before the attack, the plot was [music] discovered and Guy Fawkes was arrested. Ever since then, guards still search the cellars beneath Parliament [music] as part of royal tradition.