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Queen slammed for wearing fur coat

Saturday, 26 December 2015 5:28 PM [ Last Update: Saturday, 26 December 2015 6:00 PM ]

The Queen photographed wearing a brown fur coat as she walked to the private family church service near Sandringham.

Animal rights groups have criticized Queen Elizabeth II for wearing a fur coat to attend a Christmas Day mass in Sandringham.

The 89-year-old monarch was pictured wearing a brown fur coat before changing into a red coat and scarf by the time she made it to the church.

The move triggered sharp criticism from some Twitter users.

A Twitter user wrote: "The Queen wearing fur makes me hate her even more."

Another one called her "insensitive and ignorant", while another said: "The Queen in a fur coat - epic trolling.

The Queen changed into a red coat and scarf by the time she made it to the royal family church.

The Queen has been seen putting on fur on several occasions since the 1960s.

Back in 2013, when the octogenarian had it on for the Christmas Day service, animal rights group PETA said: "How can Queen Elizabeth not yet have learned what's right and wrong and abandoned fur, the product of immense suffering…Animals are routinely strangled, electrocuted and skinned alive for their pelts. Fur farming was banned in 2000 because it’s a cruel industry that no longer represents British values."

"We truly hope that the Queen gets with these more enlightened times and chooses to wear something more humane in the future,” the animal rights group added.

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