Editing Swiss Guards (section)

==In popular culture==
When writing ''[[Hamlet (play)|Hamlet]]'', [[Shakespeare]] assumed (perhaps relying on his [[Sources of Hamlet|sources]]) that the royal house of Denmark employed a Swiss Guard:  In Act IV, Scene v (line 98) he has King Claudius exclaim "Where are my Switzers? Let them guard the door".<ref>Philip Haythornthwaite, page 85 "The French Revolutionary Wars 1789–1802", {{ISBN|0-7137-0936-7}}</ref> However, it may also be due to the word "Swiss" having become a generic term for a royal guard in popular European usage. Coincidentally, the present-day gatekeepers of [[Amalienborg|the royal palace of Copenhagen]] are known as ''schweizere'', "Swiss".<ref>{{cite news|title=Obituary of former "Swiss" Henry A. Ulstrup|url=http://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/artikel/332598:Mennesker--Doede|access-date=4 January 2013|newspaper=Kristeligt Dagblad|date=28 July 2009|language=da|quote=The Swiss (Schweizeren) were at that time doormen at the royal palaces and thus the first to receive the royal family's private and official guests.}}</ref>