Corgis
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" In 1933 the Queen's father, then Duke of York, purchased Dookie, a Pembrokeshire, in 1933, and she was given her own dog, Susan, as an 18th birthday present.
Susan even went on honeymoon, concealed beneath travel rugs and next to a hot water bottle, as Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip drove through London in an open carriage to catch the train to Hampshire.
She introduced the “dorgi”, by breeding her corgi Tiny with Princess Margaret’s even tinier dachshund Pipkin.
The Kennel Club was less impressed. “The dachshund was evolved to chase badgers down holes, and the corgis to round up cattle. If anyone loses a herd of cattle down a badger hole, then these are just the dogs to get them out,” it said, sniffily, at the time.
Sadly.later on
When Princess Anne’s English bull terrier Florence attacked and killed Pharos, one of her oldest corgis, at Sandringham as the royals gathered for Christmas in 2003, it put a blight on the festivities. "
All from
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/09/queens-elizabeth-corgis-tested-palace-loyalties
more information
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_corgis
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