From one queen to another, Julian Clary is calling on Her Majesty to stop picking on bears. That’s right, the camp comic himself posed for this great new ad – naked expect a bit of royal attire and a… erm, teddy bear covering his crown jewels. We caught up with him during the shoot to find out more about why he’s sticking up for bears.

PETA: So what made you decide to bare all for PETA?
Julian: I’d hoped the mere threat of me taking my clothes off would cause the Queen to switch to synthetic fur, but it seems not. Now I must follow through, as it were. If it wasn’t so tragic for the bears it would be just plain silly. There is no earthly reason to keep killing bears. Tradition is all very well, but not when it is needless and cruel. Even the royals can evolve, surely?

PETA: This isn’t the first time you have supported PETA’s bearskins campaign, is it?
Julian: I wrote to her majesty some time ago, queen to Queen, as it were, suggesting it might be time for her guards to start wearing fun fur hats. No one would be able to tell the difference, and so many bears’ lives would be saved. She didn’t respond. Now I am exposing my remarkably well preserved body to make her see sense. I am her loyal subject, but I am also very fond of bears. Let’s not fall out over this.

PETA: Many people still don’t realise that the ceremonial caps are real, or that it takes one bear to make every single cap.
Julian: If the queen’s guards wore fake fur hats instead, it would be a changing of the guards well worth applauding.

PETA: If the Queen happens to read this, what would be your message to her?
Julian: I would respectfully ask her how she justifies killing beautiful bears for ceremonial hats when there is an indistinguishable alternative.

If you haven’t already checked out Julian’s book, Murder Most Fab, it’s now out on paperback. You’re in for a treat…

Wearing not much more than painted flags on their bums and faux-bearskin hats, these star activists decided to bare all in Brussels and The Hague for bears. We think seeing a bunch of naked people in the street is a trillion times more acceptable than what hunters do to black bears – shoot them, skin them, then sell the fur to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for the Queen’s Guards’ Caps. Actually, that’s not even the half of it. These lovely looking ladies and gents below, however, are doing something about it, by stripping off and drawing attention to the plight of the bears.

Oh and before you ask, the guy on the right isn’t wearing a hat that says ‘bent’ or ‘bent’ (though his choice of clothing might well prompt him to want to do that) – it says ‘bont’ or ‘bont’, which means ‘fur’ in Dutch. That’s no fun… ruin my fun. Hmpf…

I hold my hands up and say that this happened a few days ago now, but nonetheless I just had to show you what our pals over in Germany have been getting up to in the PETA worldwide campaign against bearskins.

I don’t know about you, but it looks like a cross between Genesis’ I Can’t Dance and Kraftwerk, only naked. Freaky! But I love it all the same - go PETA Germany!

I’ve just heard from my buddies over at PETA US who have sent a bear to greet the Royals at every stop they make on a tour of the Caribbean. As you know, the Royal Guards’ Caps are made from real bearskins and we are doing everything we can to put a stop to this silly and cruel tradition.

The first leg of the tour was Trinidad, and I’m told it was a huge success. Check out the pictures below which show the bear making waves with the locals and greeting Camilla and the Prince as they board a helicopter – all very exciting! Here’s a quick and cheeky report from the PETA US team while they were outside the President’s house in Trinidad:

“One of the Prince’s main security men jumped out of a car that was ahead of the Prince as he was coming back out. He ran over to us and said: ‘Will you be joining us on all of the island stops in the Caribbean?’ We said: ‘Maybe!’, before he hopped back into the moving car.”

Classic. Watch this space for an update…