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21 April 2004
royal corgi news
Two great news pieces recently about corgis and their relationship to royalty:
The first, from Hello! magazine (not one of my regular reads), news of a recent attempt to auction a drawing and note by Queen Elizabeth II regarding the burial of one of her first corgis, Susan. Seems the auction has been stopped, the reason being that the papers relate to "state business" and were sent to the deceased in his capacity as an employee and that he (and his heirs) cannot claim ownership and therefore can't sell the pieces.
The second is a piece from the Associated Press on the possible discovery of corgi bones among the ruins of a 9th century royal dwelling in Wales. Although the Welsh corgi is considered an "ancient breed," this new evidence suggests that corgis have been the favorite of monarchs long before QEII.
Our considerations in choosing Wallace (or choosing his breed) weren't very royal. We admired the traits that corgis possess: spirit and high intelligence, their compact physical size combined with an oversized personality, and yes, even the "little Napoleon" quality that sometimes tests our patience. And the appetite...well, the breadth and depth of his appetite is shocking, despite all we had read about corgis as bottomless food pits.