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andiuk | 10:24 Wed 17th Apr 2002 | People & Places
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Why are the gaurds of the tower of london called beefeaters?
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Because of their magnificent physiques, apparently.
Or... because a visiting, foreign, monarch describes them as men who "eat a great amount of beef one might even call then Beefeaters". I'll wrack my brain for the name of the monarch.

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