Two corgis that Prince Andrew and Princess Beatrice donated to the Queen will be taken care of by the couple.
After the passing of Prince Philip in 2021, her second son and his older daughter gave her the canines, Muick and Sandy.
Because she did not want to leave any pets behind after her death, Her Majesty has refrained from adopting additional canines in recent years.
It is thought that she did so with the understanding that Andrew or Beatrice would ultimately get the pups back.
As the dogs grow used to one other’s company, Candy, the Queen’s sole remaining dorgi (a cross between a dachshund and a corgi), is also expected to join Muick and Sandy (Pictured the Queen with Candy earlier this year)
Recent months are said to have seen the Prince and Beatrice walking the dogs.
As the dogs grow used to one other’s company, Candy, the Queen’s sole remaining dorgi (a cross between a dachshund and a corgi), is also expected to join Muick and Sandy.
If not, a staff member will presumably get Candy. When the Queen had pups in the past, there had been fierce rivalry among the staff at her royal apartments to get one.
Another of the late Queen’s dogs, Lissy, the current Kennel Club champion cocker spaniel gundog whose pedigree name is Wolferton Drama, is still up in the air. After the late Queen, Lissy now resides with her trainer, Ian Openshaw. In the next weeks, King Charles is anticipated to make a choice on her future.
Although Charles will inherit the Norfolk estate, it is not yet clear whether he will preserve the breeding kennels where the Queen was famed for producing gundogs.
The Queen owned at least 30 corgis in her lifetime, with ten generations of puppies descended from Susan, the corgi given to her as an 18th birthday present from her father
Her dogs were treated royally, with their own room and elevated wicker baskets
The Queen owned at least 30 corgis in her lifetime, with ten generations of puppies descended from Susan, the corgi given to her as an 18th birthday present from her father, the late King George VI.
She is also credited with inventing the ‘dorgi’ in 1971, when her corgi, Tiny, crossed with her sister Princess Margaret’s dachshund, Pipkin.
Her dogs were treated royally, with their own room and elevated wicker baskets. Meals of beef, chicken, rabbit, liver, cabbage and rice were usually prepared by a chef, but sometimes by the Queen herself.
Prince Philip is said to have ‘loathed’ the dogs’ yapping. In 1989 it was reported that an animal behaviour expert was called in to cure the corgis from their habit of nipping members of the Royal Family. Two years later, however, the Queen tried to break up a corgi fight and needed three stitches after being bitten on her left han