Queen Elizabeth II’s love for dogs began at an early age. She was given her first Corgi – Susan – on her 18th birthday in 1933. All the other Corgis bred by the monarch during her lifetime descended from Susan. The monarch owned more than 30 corgis and other pets during her lifetime.
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What will happen to her dogs?
Apart from the Queen’s love for Corgi, a lesser-known fact about her is how also played a role in creating a new breed of dogs – the Dorgi. One of her corgis bred with dachshund Pipkin to create the cross, confirms Newsweek.
Now that the Queen is no more, the responsibility of her beloved dogs will need to be handed over. The official plan has not yet been released publicly, but royal biographer Ingrid Seward speculates:
I imagine the dogs would be looked after by the family, probably Andrew [as] he's the one that gave them to her, they're quite young, the corgi and the Dorgi.
While Royal author Penny Junor suggested that the dogs may be cared for by the Queen’s staff. She wrote in her book All The Queen's Corgis:
Care of the dogs has fallen sometimes to footmen but mostly to the Queen's trusted dressmaker, assistant and right-hand woman, Angela Kelly; and to her equally trusted page of many years standing, Paul Whybrew, who was seen walking with the Queen and the dogs in the James Bond spoof.
How many dogs does she have?
The Queen was believed to own about five dogs – two corgis named Muick and Sandy, two Cocker Spaniels and one Dorgi called Candy. Reportedly, Queen Elizabeth II stopped breeding corgis in 2015 as she did not want to leave them behind in the event of her death.
However, the Royal Family broke the no new royal dogs rule last year as Prince Andrew gifted her two puppies Muick and a Dorgi Fergus. Unfortunately, Fergus died three months later so Prince Andrew and his daughters gifted the monarch another corgi named Sandy.
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