Overview

• Stephen Fry, actor and environmental campaigner, has joined PETA in calling for an end to the use of real fur for the bearskin caps worn by the King’s Guard.
• The fur for these caps comes from Canadian black bears, which PETA alleges are baited and killed by trophy hunters.
• The Ministry of Defence (MoD) maintains that the fur used comes from legal and licensed hunts, and that alternatives to bear fur have failed their standards.
• PETA's campaign includes a video narrated by Fry, showing undercover footage of how the bears are killed.
• Other celebrities, including Sir Paul McCartney, Pamela Anderson, and Ricky Gervais, have previously called for the MoD to replace the caps with faux fur.