Morrissey wrote an open letter to Queen Elizabeth this week, calling for her to stop the use of real bearskin in her guards’ hats.

In a letter published in the London

Times

, he denounced the practice and praised Stella McCartney, who designed faux fur versions. “There is no sanity in making life difficult on purpose for the Canadian brown bear, especially for guards’ hats that look absurd in the first place,” he wrote.