The Queen is properly attired in a black dress. Only Catholic Queens are privileged to wear white in the Papal presence. This rule, to the best of my knowledge, was unbroken until the supposedly 'Catholic' wife of Red Tony Blair, Cherie, wore white for a Papal audience.
Unfortunately, most of the gloriously uniformed corps that are shown in this video were abolished by Paul VI in his systematic destruction of the glory of the Vatican. The only survival, as far as I know, is the Swiss Guard.
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