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LONDON (Reuters) – British actor Stephen Fry teamed up with animal welfare campaigners on Wednesday to demand that soldiers of the King’s Guard stop using real fur in their famous tall bearskin caps. The scarlet-clad soldiers wear the foot-high bear pelt headwear, known as a busby, for ceremonial events and when they fill sentry posts outside Buckingham Palace as they have done for centuries. But Fry, one of Britain’s best-known actors and TV broadcasters, called for the soldiers to replace the “fur of slaughtered wildlife” with a fake version. “Tradition is never an excuse for cruelty,” Fry, …

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