The Queen loved corgis… now everyone wants one!
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The Queen Loved Corgis…Now Everyone Wants One!: Searches for Her Majesty’s Favorite Dog Breed Have Increased TENFOLD Over the Last Week
- Searches for corgis have increased tenfold in the past week, according to Pets4Homes
- If you buy a Pembroke Welsh corgi puppy you will now get €2,500 back
- Average prices have reached an all-time high after doubling in the last three days
- Queen got the first corgi in 1944 and had a lifelong love for the dogs
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They are the breed that became synonymous with the Queen and stood by her side throughout her 70-year reign.
And now, it seems, everyone wants a corgi, too.
According to the pet relocation website Pets4Homes, searches for the dogs have increased tenfold in the past week.
Buying a Pembroke Welsh corgi puppy will now set you back £2500 with average prices hitting an all-time high after doubling in the last three days.
The Queen was given her first corgi, Susan, for her 18th birthday in 1944, and received more than 30 of them.
Smitten: A young princess Elizabeth hugs a corgi in July 1936
Princess Elizabeth takes her dog for a walk in London’s Hyde Park on February 26, 1936
Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) with two Pembroke Welsh Corgi dogs, Dookie and Jane
Roger Mugford, who was the Queen’s corgi trainer, said the first breed of dog a person gets is usually the one they stay most attached to.
“I think that was true of Her Majesty,” he told the BBC this week. “She loved her first corgi and she loved all 30 corgis that followed. They are her trademark dog breed.
“The purebred corgi is hard to beat. It has so many merits – a big-hearted, big-hearted, hard-working dog in a small body.
“They are usually benign and highly trainable. They have all the training qualities of a border collie.’ He said the Queen had a soft spot for puppies, which he described as her “mistake.”
“Other members of the family said, like me, that ‘maybe, ma’am, you have too many dogs,'” he said.
Queen Elizabeth II arrives at King’s Cross train station in London on October 15, 1969 with four Corgis
“She sat me down really tight and said, ‘Philip already says I have too many dogs. I’m not paying you good money to tell me what I already know.’
The Queen continued to keep corgis until she died, which Dr. Mugford described it as a ‘fantastic pleasure’ for her in her later years. “It was the great relaxation, the great therapy, of the affairs of state,” he added.
Her Majesty’s dogs will now live with her son, Andrew, and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, as Muick and Sandy were gifts from the Duke of York and Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie.
Her Majesty’s dogs will now live with her son, Andrew, and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, as Muick and Sandy were gifts from the Duke of York and Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie