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… fee illegally required by the Queen’s Guard who refused to show the zebra without being paid. Numerous indignant letters appeared in London newspapers especially because the Queen was not able to stop such sordid doings. This social … say with such exotic animals as the king’s elephants and the queen’s zebra. Likewise, Walpole and Mason exchanged witty letters on the zebra whose dead body was put on display at the Blue Boar Inn in York. In a letter dated 2 June 1773, … serving large steaks at the menagerie. Not only did his death spark protests over animal rights, as exemplified by the letters published in The Times (10 March 1826) criticising the barbarity of the process, but it also stimulated …
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