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Permalink Reply by Chris on October 9, 2009 at 10:54am

thanks for the great article! We were just in London in late August and tried to find some corgi items to bring home with us. We were quite surprised that we couldn't find any! Nothing at Harrods or the various castles we visited! Quite disapointing.

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Permalink Reply by CorGeek on October 9, 2009 at 11:05am

The image captioned "Watch the crown jewels: Prince Philip defends himself against royal corgi, Candy, while the Prince of Wales looks on"...that is so not a corgi. :D

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Permalink Reply by Mary on October 27, 2009 at 8:21pm

candy is actually a "dorgi" :). So you are right.

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Permalink Reply by Edward and Gemima on October 9, 2009 at 11:34am

Thanks for the article!!! I couldn't help chuckling about quite a bit of it, only cuz I love Corgis sooo much!!!! There is a really funny children's book "King Titus Rules" that my girls and I enjoyed. A lot of the story sounds as if it is based on many of the events described in the article!!!

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Permalink Reply by Beth on October 9, 2009 at 12:07pm

Yes, I also am absolutely sure the Prince Philip photo is not a Corgi! Looks like a GSD to me. Look at the legs! Any Corgi would be ashamed to have such gangly legs. LOL

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Permalink Reply by Bev Levy on October 9, 2009 at 12:26pm

Cute article! It is proof however that spoiling corgis too much is not a good thing.

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Permalink Reply by Beth on October 9, 2009 at 6:08pm

I was thinking that too! Sounds like hers are not very well-mannered at all! LOL

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Permalink Reply by Geri & Sidney on October 9, 2009 at 1:51pm

Hee hee, I loved this line:
"She also walks them after lunch whenever she can (if they see her in a headscarf, they yap and jump about with excitement, whereas if she's sporting a tiara, they slump down miserably onto the antique carpet)."

When my dogs see me pick up my walking shoes, they "yap and jump about" just like the Queen's corgis do. Imagine seeing a 15-year-old lump of corgi on the carpet transform into a maniacal bundle of energy at the sight of a pair of dusty worn in hiking shoes and a baseball cap. Yet is they see me pick up my work shoes, they sigh and go to sleep.

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Permalink Reply by Avyon on October 9, 2009 at 2:47pm

oh yea I read something about this a while ago. Its sad but shows her true love by not homing more due to age and knowing that perhaps.. others wont be as good to them as she was ;)

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Permalink Reply by Denise Hawkins on October 21, 2009 at 1:25pm

That article is exactly why there are not many corgi owners in the UK. Whenever I have walked mine, I am always getting comments like "oh are you walking the Queens dogs?" Or "Oh look thats the ones the queen has". They get a lot of bad press here because her dogs are spoiled and notoriously nippy.
I think she made the right choice on not adding to her pack.
That dog with Prince Phillip and Prince Charles is so NOT a corgi!!

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Permalink Reply by John Wolff on November 12, 2009 at 8:35pm

I believe the joke about they royal family and the corgis goes something like this:
"...inbred, over-fed, spoiled, ill-mannered... and the dogs aren't much better." :-)

Somewhere there's a collection of British tabloid gossip about the royal dogs. I believe one of the footmen once got in trouble for getting them drunk on gin.

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Permalink Reply by John Wolff on November 13, 2009 at 12:23pm

Your rejoinder is: "Oh yes, these are Her Majesty's corgis. Liz often lets one or two of them stay with us, between visits. They like it here because our house is so much dirtier than Buckingham, and we're not so fussy about protocol."

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