Posted on 08/27/2011 7:32:32 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
My first encounter with a royal dog came in November 1990, when I rather nervously accepted an invitation to lunch at Clarence House to discuss my forthcoming biography of Prince Philip. Ushered into a drawing room by an equerry, I was introduced first to the Queen Mother, then Princess Margaret and finally one of the small brown barrels of fur sitting on the carpet.
The corgi gazed up...
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Thanks !
Of course in proper King's English that sentence shall be had as "She be done use hand signals and whistle to control her Labradors".
LOL! Thanks. I’ll have nightmares, now.
I had a friend who trained his dogs with both verbal commands and hand signals. He said he did this so he could maintain a conversation with the neighbors without stopping to command the dogs. The dogs knew both, and obeyed very well.
What a beautiful dog!
Leading from behind.
It occurs to me that for the Queen it is probably very difficult to discern who is a true friend. It is no doubt a lonely life.
I can imagine that dogs, who really don’t know you are royalty, are very valuable companions to her.
These two tri’s look astonishingly like my corgi, Griffyn.
Yeah, I noticed a few whoppers there. Apparently, no proofreading is used.
Bob Dillon Jones, and Caleb.
I’m partial to the tri-colored, my second and third. D will be 12 in Oct.
Yeah, I noticed a few whoppers there. Apparently, no proofreading is used.
Not at all. Corgis were originally herding/farm dogs, in the same vein as border collies, shelties, etc. They do NOT suffer from the dachshund tendency toward back problems.
I suspect that the Queen's Corgi's are quite capable of responding to hand/voice signals, Corgi's being originally herding dogs (bred to herd cattle and PIGS, no less, but also useful for herding whatever else needs it). There are videos on Youtube of "working Corgi's" going through the same "herding competitions" that Border Collies do.
I don’t know if you went to the link and read the whole article, but it mentions that the Queen, and her sister Princess Margaret, were home-schooled and therefore did not have friends growing up. It was also WWII, and I think they were sent out of the country for a while too to save them from the blitz. Dogs and horses were the stable elements of their childhoods.
The Queen as a young girl had animals as her own playmates
I love this picture of her. Probably around 1938? Older?
Yes. What bothered me is that in one place it said that Prince Philip names all the Labradors. In another place it says that the Queen names all the Labradors that are whelped at her kennel.
Well, which is it?
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