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The Royal Family Has Announced Some Upsetting News – And It’s Left Queen Elizabeth Heartbroken

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Published on 24 Jun 2018 / In Pets and Animals

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In 2017 Queen Elizabeth II reached an impressive 91 years of age. What’s more, she’s the longest-reigning monarch of all time, having outlasted even her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria. And as would be expected, she’s seen a lot of tragedy throughout her long life. Not only has she lived through wars and disasters, for instance, but she’s also experienced a great deal of personal loss: she’s outlived her sister, her mother, her one-time daughter-in-law, Princess Diana, and a lot of her beloved pets. Now her time has come, it seems, to consider what will happen after she, too, passes away.

The Queen is, of course, very different from your average elderly lady. She commands an amount of wealth, privilege and power that’s unfathomable to most ordinary people. And when she dies, this power will pass to her eldest son, Prince Charles. He in turn will pass his inheritance to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. It’s an age-old system that will, most likely, last for a good many years to come.

And it’s likely partly because of this system that the Queen keeps her thoughts and opinions – and her likes and dislikes – very firmly to herself. Although details leak out from the Palace every so often – apparently Her Majesty owns an iPod and enjoys Nintendo Wii games – no one except her family members and her staff know what she’s really like. However, the world is aware of one very important aspect of her character.

Yes, everybody knows that the Queen adores her Corgis, and all sorts of Royal Family merchandise is adorned with the cute little animals. Indeed, you can buy your own cuddly corgis at the official Buckingham Palace gift shop. And when the Queen made a very rare “comedic” appearance in a skit for the 2012 Olympics, accompanied by actor Daniel Craig, three corgis – Willow, Monty and Holly – were also given starring roles.

In fact, it’s a rare occasion if pop culture portrayals of the Queen don’t include the corgis. They’ve shown up – played by duplicate doggies, obviously – in films as diverse as apocalypse blockbuster 2012, spy comedy Johnny English and The BFG. And they appear, of course, in the 2006 Oscar-winning biopic The Queen.

Fans of the Royal Family, too, have had tremendous fun looking out for and identifying the corgis over the years. Many of the dogs, for instance, have made appearances in magazines, and they have had a fun variety of silly names that royal-watchers love. Among the names the Queen has chosen for her pups are: “Sugar,” “Tiny,” “Brush” and even “Candy.”

Interestingly, the Queen’s relationship with her precious dogs has lasted even longer than that with her husband. In 1933, in fact, Her Majesty was still a little girl no doubt unaware of what the future had in store when her parents bought a corgi named Dookie. Young Elizabeth quickly fell in love with the dog, and a decade later she got one of her own, a Pembroke corgi called Susan. Susan was to follow her wherever she went, even on her honeymoon.

However, Susan was a bit of a troublemaker. During her time at Buckingham Palace, for instance, she bit four people, including a policeman. But she also became the matriarch of a vast dynasty of puppies, including some who were crossbred to make “dorgis,” a dachshund-corgi cross. So when Susan died in 1959, the Queen designed the gravestone for her beloved pet herself. The memorial read “Susan, died 26th Jan 1959. For almost 15 years the faithful companion of the Queen.”

Of course, Queen Elizabeth isn’t the only monarch who’s dearly loved her pets. Queen Victoria had several, in fact, her favorite being a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel named Dash. She fell in love with her husband Prince Albert only after noting that he treated the dog well, and when Dash eventually died, she had a grand marble tombstone built for him at Windsor Home Park.

However, although Queen Victoria passed a love of dogs onto her descendants, Queen Elizabeth ended up as the only person in her immediate family who adored corgis quite as much as she did. Even her son, Charles, it seems, has a pretty indifferent attitude towards them. Indeed, during a 2012 interview with the BBC, he couldn’t recognize Susan for certain when he was played a video of the dog.

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