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THE QUEEN’S LAST Corgi, Willow, has been put to sleep.
The Daily Mail reports that the dog was put down following a “cancer-related illness”. The death comes before the Queen’s 92nd birthday on Saturday.
“She does not like seeing her dogs suffer and she knows that sometimes putting a dog down is the kindest course of action – although that doesn’t make her loss any less,” the paper quotes a ‘source’.
One comforting fact was that Prince Philip, recuperating from his hip replacement operation, was able to be with her at Windsor.”
Willow featured in the Queen’s James Bond sketch for the 2012 Olympic Games.
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Willow was the 14th generation descended from Susan, Her Majesty’s first dog. Susan was an 18th birthday from her mother and father. Following this, George VI (then Duke of York) brought a corgi into the family in 1933, called Dookie.
The beloved pet will be buried in the grounds at Windsor, or Sandringham in the pet cemetery begun by Queen Victoria, with a small headstone to mark her location.
In 2015, the Queen decided to stop breeding her dogs, so that “none were left behind” after the Monarch herself passes.
The Queen still has two dorgis (Daschund/corgi cross) in her possession, named Vulcan and Candy.
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Thursday 26 December, 2024
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The Queen is said to be finding the loss of her last corgi Willow "extremely hard"
THE QUEEN’S LAST Corgi, Willow, has been put to sleep.
The Daily Mail reports that the dog was put down following a “cancer-related illness”. The death comes before the Queen’s 92nd birthday on Saturday.
“She does not like seeing her dogs suffer and she knows that sometimes putting a dog down is the kindest course of action – although that doesn’t make her loss any less,” the paper quotes a ‘source’.
Willow featured in the Queen’s James Bond sketch for the 2012 Olympic Games.
Willow was the 14th generation descended from Susan, Her Majesty’s first dog. Susan was an 18th birthday from her mother and father. Following this, George VI (then Duke of York) brought a corgi into the family in 1933, called Dookie.
The beloved pet will be buried in the grounds at Windsor, or Sandringham in the pet cemetery begun by Queen Victoria, with a small headstone to mark her location.
In 2015, the Queen decided to stop breeding her dogs, so that “none were left behind” after the Monarch herself passes.
The Queen still has two dorgis (Daschund/corgi cross) in her possession, named Vulcan and Candy.
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