LONDON —
Prices for corgis, the dogs beloved by the late
Queen Elizabeth II, have
doubled to new highs since the monarch’s funeral last week, the UK’s largest
pet marketplace said Monday.
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Pets4Homes told AFP
it was currently experiencing “over ten times the volume of daily searches for
corgis when compared to this time last week”.
It added: “The
prices asked for by registered corgi breeders have today hit a new high, with
average asking prices doubling over the past three days.”
One of the small
herding dogs now sells for over £2,500 ($2,678) for the first time, even
outstripping prices reached during the pandemic, when demand spiked for
four-legged companions.
The queen’s corgis
were the most loyal of all the monarch’s servants, providing domestic
companionship during nearly a century in the public glare.
The little, mainly
sandy-colored dogs with pointy ears were a busy presence in the queen’s court,
following her from room to room and featuring in official photos.
They were even
given a starring role in the spoof James Bond clip filmed with the queen for
the opening ceremony of the 2012
London Olympics.
The queen, whose
funeral was last Monday, stopped raising corgis in her 90s so as not to leave
them orphaned after her death.
Nevertheless, the
queen still kept two “dorgis” — dachshund and corgi crosses — to keep her
company in her final years.
“The queen was,
amongst many things, a world-famous dog lover and really did symbolize the love
and affection that our nation holds for their dogs,” Mark Beazley, Kennel Club
chief executive, told AFP.
“She was
especially known for her Welsh Pembroke Corgis after being gifted her first
Corgi, Susan, by her father, King George VI when she was eighteen,” he added.
The queen was so
fond of her corgis that she personally supervised their daily meal, according
to “Pets by Royal Appointment”, by author Brian Hoey, a book on British royal
pets since the 16th century.
The dogs’ dinners
of fillet steak and chicken breast were prepared by a footman and served at
5:00 pm sharp every day, with the queen playing servant, pouring the gravy on
the feast.
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