LONDON — A key question around Britain’s royal succession
was resolved on Sunday when it emerged scandal-hit Prince Andrew and his
ex-wife will look after
Queen Elizabeth II’s corgi dogs after her death.
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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 favorite — and Ferguson had given Muick and Sandy to the queen as a
gift.
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.
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 pedophile
Jeffrey Epstein.
In February, Andrew settled a sexual abuse lawsuit
in the US with an Epstein victim, having previously been stripped of his
honorary military titles.
He and Ferguson married in a highly publicized 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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