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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Nada Farhoud

PETA campaign launched calling on Army to replace bearskin in Queen's Guard caps

Actor and model Rafferty Law is the face of a new PETA campaign urging the Ministry of Defence to replace the real bearskin used to create caps worn by the Queen’s Guard with faux fur.

The famous headgear - called caps by the Army - are made from the skins of culled wild Canadian bears.

The 25-year-old son of actor Jude Law and Sadie Frost says that it takes the skin of at least one bear to create a single cap, which serves “absolutely no military purpose”.

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