Prince Andrew to take on queen’s beloved corgis
A key question around Britain’s royal succession was resolved on Sunday when it emerged that scandal-hit Prince Andrew and his ex-wife will look after Queen Elizabeth II’s corgi dogs after her death.
The prince and his former spouse Sarah Ferguson will take on Muick and Sandy following the queen’s death at Balmoral on Thursday aged 96, Andrew’s spokesman said.
Andrew — the queen’s third son and often reported to be her favourite — and Ferguson had given Muick and Sandy to the queen as a gift.
(FILES) In this file photo taken on April 21, 1965 at Frogmore House in Windsor, Berkshire shows The British Royal Family: (from L to R) Princess Anne, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Andrew, Duke of York smiling at Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, in his cradle. – Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving monarch in British history and an icon instantly recognisable to billions of people around the world, has died aged 96, Buckingham Palace said on September 8, 2022. Her eldest son, Charles, 73, succeeds as king immediately, according to centuries of protocol, beginning a new, less certain chapter for the royal family after the queen’s record-breaking 70-year reign. (Photo by STRINGER / CENTRAL PRESS / AFP)
The pets were a comfort to the queen while she was at Windsor Castle during the coronavirus pandemic, her dresser Angela Kelly said.
The fate of the two corgis — the latest in a long line of more than 30 of the sandy, short-legged dogs throughout Elizabeth’s reign — had been a mystery.
Muick joined the royal family at the start of 2021 along with a so-called “dorgi”, a cross between a corgi and a dachshund, called Fergus.
(FILES) In this file photo taken on April 21, 2018 Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II (centre L) waves to guests as her son Britain’s Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (L) and grandson Britain’s Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (R) react as she takes her seat ni the Royal box during The Queen’s Birthday Party concert on the occassion of Her Majesty’s 92nd birthday at the Royal Albert Hall in London. – Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving monarch in British history and an icon instantly recognisable to billions of people around the world, has died aged 96, Buckingham Palace said on September 8, 2022. Her eldest son, Charles, 73, succeeds as king immediately, according to centuries of protocol, beginning a new, less certain chapter for the royal family after the queen’s record-breaking 70-year reign. (Photo by Andrew Parsons / POOL / AFP)
Fergus died after just five months and was later replaced with Sandy, a new corgi puppy from Andrew and his daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, for the queen’s official 95th birthday.
The corgi gifts came in the same year that Prince Andrew stepped back from his public duties due to the scandal over his relationship with convicted US paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
In February, Andrew settled a sexual abuse lawsuit in the United States with an Epstein victim, having previously been stripped of his honorary military titles.
He and Ferguson married in a highly publicised wedding in 1986 and divorced ten years later, but have remained on good terms and share a home near Windsor Castle.
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