Queen Liz is onboard: no more fur. Faux fur only on very cold days. Her Majesty has already had all the mink trim -- and any other animal fur -- removed from her most favorite coats, replaced with faux fur.
Stella McCartney has a marvelous new faux fur that is impossible to distinguish from the original â although the Queenâs longtime personal adviser and official dresser Angela Kelly says that Her Majestyâs preference is to move away from fur entirely.
The Humane Society International formally announced that it's "thrilled" before calling on the British government to make the U.K. the first country in the world to ban the sale of fur. The UK branch of PETA, hardly known for low-volume press messages on the subject of animal rights, tweeted "we're raising a glass of gin and Dubonnet to the Queenâs compassionate decision to go fur-free".