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WHILST WATCHING THE NEWS coverage of the preparations for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, I was shocked to see the huge number of bearskins worn by the Queen’s (now King’s) Guard.

How can we as a nation dictate to other countries not to kill their wildlife, for food or due to their threat to agriculture, if we are killing them for ceremonial reasons?

I am not an anti-royalist; rather I’m a man born the year that the Queen came to the throne who has much respect for the royal family and

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