Why does the British Royal Guard, wear black bearskin hats all year round?

Because the black bearskin hat symbolizes the strong military power of the United Kingdom, the British Royal Guard to wear a black bearskin hat tradition has been more than two hundred years of history, has not changed this tradition. The soldiers wearing black bearskin hats are the most elite troops in the British army, the elite troops have been established for hundreds of years, the black bearskin hat is a symbol of them.

In fact, the first to wear black bearskin hats are not British soldiers, but French soldiers. Then the French soldiers in order to be able to make the soldiers will look taller, so choose to wear black bearskin hats, looks very intimidating. However, after the Battle of Waterloo, British soldiers also began to wear black bearskin hats to show that the army was stronger than Napoleon's army.

The British Ministry of Defense purchases fifty black bearskin hats every year, but the cost of making black bearskin hats is very high. Every time a black bearskin hat was made it was necessary to shoot a bear. Later, because this practice was too cruel and protested by many environmentalists, Britain tried to use chemical fiber bearskin hats to replace the black bearskin hats. But because the chemical fiber made hat is completely airtight, wearing up feel very difficult, so finally switched back to the black bearskin hat.

But I think the black bearskin hats are actually very hard to wear, they are hot and heavy to wear. Though the tradition has been kept for many years, now that times are moving on, there is absolutely no need to keep it up all the time. And this is also very harmful to the bears, which are nowadays advocating for the protection of wildlife, so this practice in the UK is opposed by many people.