Prince Andrew and Princess Beatrice will bring back corgis Muick and Sandy after gifting them to the Queen following Prince Philip’s death last year.
- The dogs Muick and Sunday were given to the Queen after the death of her husband.
- She had resisted accepting new dogs in recent years because she didn’t want to leave any after her death, but she took both of her son and daughter.
- She agreed on the basis that they would return to Prince Andrew or Princess Beatrice.
- The fate of another of the late queen’s dogs, Lissy, has yet to be decided.
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Prince Andrew and Princess Beatrice are expected to take care of two corgis given to the queen.
The dogs, Muick and Sandy, were gifts from his second son and eldest daughter after Prince Philip’s death in 2021.
Her Majesty had been reluctant to accept new dogs in recent years because she didn’t want to leave any after her death.
But it is understood that she accepted the puppies on the basis that either Andrew or Beatrice would eventually get them back.
Candy, the Queen’s last surviving dorgi, a cross between a dachshund and a corgi, is also likely to join Muick and Sandy, as the dogs are used to each other’s company (pictured, the Queen with Candy earlier this year)
The Prince and Beatrice are believed to have been walking the dogs in recent months.
Candy, the Queen’s last surviving dorgi, a cross between a dachshund and a corgi, is also likely to join Muick and Sandy, as the dogs are used to each other’s company.
Otherwise, Candy will probably be given to a staff member. In the past, when the Queen raised litters of puppies, there was great competition to acquire one among the employees of her royal residences.
The fate of another of the late queen’s dogs, Lissy, whose pedigree name is Wolferton Drama, and is the current Kennel Club Cocker Spaniel Hunting Dog Champion, has yet to be decided. Lissy, named after the late Queen, lives with her trainer Ian Openshaw. King Charles is expected to make a decision on his future in the coming weeks.
The Queen was a noted breeder of hunting dogs at Sandringham, and although Charles inherits the Norfolk estate, it is not yet known whether he will keep the kennels.
The Queen had at least 30 corgis in her life, with ten generations of puppies descended from Susan, the corgi her father gave her as an 18th birthday present.
Their dogs were treated like royalty, with their own room and elevated wicker baskets.
The queen had at least 30 corgis in her life, with ten generations of puppies descended from Susan, the corgi given to her by her father, the late King George VI, as an 18th birthday present.
He is also credited with inventing the ‘dorgi’ in 1971, when his corgi, Tiny, crossed paths with his sister Princess Margaret’s dachshund, Pipkin.
Their dogs were treated like royalty, 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 ‘hated’ barking dogs. In 1989 it was reported that he called in an animal behavior expert to cure corgis of their habit of nibbling on members of the royal family. Two years later, however, the Queen tried to break up a corgi fight and needed three stitches after her left hand was bitten off.
