'Idiot' soldier who filmed TikTok video while guarding Queen was kicked out ... trends now

A young Scots Guardsman who posted an outrageous TikTok video of himself on sentry duty at Windsor guarding Queen Elizabeth was later kicked out of the Army for using cocaine, he told MailOnline.

Jimmie Straughan's video, filmed in March 2020, but posted yesterday, outraged top brass and even his own girlfriend after he was seen gyrating against his rifle and showing a brief clip of the late Queen walking her corgis during the lockdown. 

And he claimed the former monarch herself was so annoyed by his antics in the Windsor Castle sentry box that she complained about him, earning him a stern dressing down.

In the clip the bear-skinned 23-year-old, then part of F Company of the elite Household Division, said: 'I'm meant to be looking after the Royal Family. Currently staring at two ducks. Do I care? No.'

Jimmie, from Berwick-upon-Tweed, today spoke exclusively to MailOnline from Western Australia, where he has been travelling after being dishonourably discharged from the Army in March 2022 for failing a drugs test.

He was unrepentant about the video, saying 'it was just a bit of fun to relieve the boredom', but admitted the late Queen had complained about him to his superiors after watching him 'larking around.'

'I never got caught taking the video of the Queen walking her dogs with a footman, but she phoned up the guardroom and reported me for misbehaving on post,' he said.

'I got a b********g, but nothing more than that. If they'd seen the video, I'd have been out on my ear.'

He said he was eventually dismissed in March 2022 after failing a drugs test. He claimed the use of cocaine was 'rampant' in the Household Division, due to soldiers' boredom performing ceremonial duties and was glad to leave.

'Being kicked out was the best thing that ever happened to me,' he said. 'When you join the Army, you're sold a dream of travelling the world and going to exciting places, but when we were on ceremonial duties, it was just hell.

'I hated it when we had to stand in front of the gawping tourists,' he recalled. 'I remember thinking to myself – am I a proper soldier or just a nutcracker?

'We had to work one week on, one week off, but couldn't leave camp at Wellington Barracks during the off weeks as we were doing other stuff like physical training.

'We were barely earning the minimum wage, but living in central London, so even when you did get leave, you hardly had any money to spend.'

He said the soldiers of his unit, which he joined in September 2019, were still good friends, but they were 'treated like s**t by both their superiors and even members of the Royal Family.'

He added: 'One of the members of my regiment was sent to military prison in Colchester for two weeks for looking at his watch during a parade.

'Once we were put on punishment duty and made to crawl up the stairs on all fours. That was because a Royal, I don't know which one, complained that one soldier's arm wasn't at exactly 90 degrees when he was marching.

'We were the lowest of the low. I wasn't a royalist when I went into the Guards, but I certainly didn't come out as one. In my three years in the Army I only met two or three people I would describe as royalists.'

Asked if he would like to abolish the monarchy, he replied: 'In some ways, yes, but the Royal Family and the Household Division do bring in a hell of a lot of revenue for the country from tourists.'

Jimmie said that when he was first recruited to the Army he planned to join the mechanised infantry of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, but was lured to the Scots Guards instead.

'No-one mentioned the ceremonial duties to me at all, so it was a big shock when we were posted to Buckingham Palace soon after I'd trained.

'They told me it would be for about three months

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