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Day said a poll at the time found 75% of the U.K. population found real bearskins were a bad use of taxpayer money and supported replacing the hats. Advertisement ...

A British lawmaker is gathering support for his call to ban the towering bearskin hats worn for almost 200 years by the red-coated soldiers who guard the country's royal palaces.

By BRIAN MELLEY LONDON (AP) — An animal rights group trying to get real fur out of the bearskin caps worn by King’s Guards at Buckingham Palace took aim Thursday at the cost of the ceremonial ...

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The bearskins, up to 16in tall and weighing around two pounds, are worn by the Grenadier, Welsh, Irish, Scots and Coldstream Guards.

Bearskins may be demobbed. Beauty for the beast: Protester Yana Booth. Matthew Bayley. 13 April 2012. COMMENTS. For two centuries it has stood tall and proud as a British military tradition.

Bearskins are at home, and the B. E. F. is clad in drab battle costumes cut like mechanics’ overalls. They wear rubber boots. Their food comes up in thermos boxes.

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The cost of the caps rose from 1,560 pounds ($2,035) each in 2022 to 2,040 pounds ($2,660) in 2023, the ministry said. More than 1 million pounds ($1.3 million) was spent on them in the past decade.