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First Female Beefeater

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Watch this video about the world's first female Beefeater on HowStuffworks. For those of you unfamiliar with the Beefeaters, they are the revered and select group of male guards to the Tower of London and the Crown Jewels...until now. See how Moira Cameron, the first female Beefeater guard, works in this news video from Reuters.

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