'The Queen' star James Cromwell has written to Britain's Queen Elizabeth imploring her to order an end to the slaughter of Canadian black bears.
The Oscar-nominated actor, who plays Prince Philip in the hit film, has asked the monarch to use her position to stop the massacre of the animals, whose skins are used in the hats worn by the royal guards.
Cromwell sent the letter on behalf of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and also criticizes Britain's Ministry of Defense for offering poor excuses for not using alternative synthetic materials, in response to his first letter.
He wrote: "I regret to say that the bearskin cap that was once constructed to intimidate the enemy by making the soldiers look taller than they were as they marched over the hill into battle now makes the MoD look very small."
He adds: "The excuses listed in the letter for the MoD's failure to switch to faux fur for Your Majesty's Guards' hats, such as that the "volume of the (faux) fibres was insufficient to allow the fabric to retain its shape" and that the faux-fur model "lacked sufficient density between the layers of material to prevent the lower layers showing through", provide no justification whatsoever for the continued slaughter of wild Canadian bears."
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