Photo credit: David Dyson, Camera Press/Redux
Serious question for a not so serious dog. How did the Queen get away with having tail-less corgs in the UK? I thought there was a docking ban. Are they natural nubs or do rules just not apply to the Queen?
ETA: The ban on docking was not until 2007. Her corgs are all older than that.
Royal Corgi, Monty, is the second ham to make it down the stairs. RIP little Monty! You gave us all smiles!
The Queen’s oldest corgi, Monty has passed away at 13 years. Thank you for giving us cute attacks during your appearance in the James Bond Video. Monty was also previously owned by the Queen Mother.
“The palace confirmed the death of Monty and of Cider, a dorgi, or dachsund-corgi cross-breed. At present the Queen owns two dorgis called Candy and Vulcan and two other Pembroke Welsh corgis called Willow and Holly, who are all descended from a dog she was given for her 18th birthday, who was called Susan.
Monty was named after Monty Roberts, the American subject of a BBC documentary, A Real Horse Whisperer.
Roberts, 77, who advises the Queen on horses and corgis, has reportedly offered her a corgi puppy to carry on the tradition.”
Source- The Telegraph
RIP Monty. Thanks for sharing him in the Olympics video.
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I have no idea what the hell this thing does. But I want it. For reasons.
Who knew the Diamond Jubilee would be all about corgis?
An increasing number of people are showing an interest in corgi breeds after a long period of “worrying decline”, the organisation said.
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“It is a wonderful tribute to the Queen that the popularity of her chosen breed and its cousin, the Cardigan Welsh corgi, has increased in her Diamond Jubilee year, which will have raised people’s awareness of the breeds.”
More on the rise of the corgis on BBC here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18015583
In a file picture taken on October 15, 1969 Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II arrives at King’s Cross railway station in London with her four corgi dogs after holidays in Balmoral Castle in Scotland.
If I were a Queen, I would travel with no less than 12 corgis.
