Woman Guard 💂‍♀️
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The woman guard emoji, depicting a woman with longer hair in red uniform with a tall black bearskin hat. This emoji specifically represents female royal guards. Common usage includes 'Cool female guard💂‍♀️' 'Female royal guard💂‍♀️' or 'Women making history💂‍♀️' It's a sequence combining the base guard emoji (U+1F482) with the female sign (♀). The Buckingham Palace guards were traditionally all-male, but in 2017, a woman was first appointed as Captain of the Queen's Guard, and from 2019, women began participating in the Changing of the Guard ceremony.

This represents a significant transformation in British military history and symbolizes progress in gender equality. The emoji is used in posts about female military service members, gender equality in the military, royal tradition meeting modernization, and women's career advancement. Female guard-style costumes occasionally appear in films, dramas, and fashion. Skin tone modifiers can be applied to represent female guards of different ethnicities.