What do you give the prince who’s already sharing his home with an ex-wife and five dogs? That’s right: more dogs!
t was an image that spoke to a nation in mourning, and even those not deep in mourning felt the natural empathy of the dog-lover: Muick and Sandy, the Queen’s corgis, attended by footmen as they watched her funeral procession. What would be the dogs’ fate? Did they even understand that their destiny had changed for ever?
The remaining three dogs have been rehomed together. Candy, the dorgi – a portmanteau of dachshund and corgi, the result of a 1971 fling between Tiny, the Queen’s corgi, and Pipkin, Princess Margaret’s sausage dog – is the oldest, but cannot be retired or made redundant, since the dogs were on different employment terms from the rest of the royal household. Muick was originally given to the Queen as part of a pair by Prince Andrew in spring 2021, weeks before Prince Philip died.
You’re wondering, of course, why there were only two corgis, since throughout her reign, if you ever saw a picture of the Queen, the shot was teeming with them. As far back as 2003, dear old Liz stopped breeding from her corgi bloodline – which started in 1944 with Susan, an 18th birthday gift – specifically because she didn’t want her dogs to outlive her. The last of that extended litter was Willow, who died in 2018.
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