How the dog became Elizabeth’s trademark sidekick.
debated whether the corgi was a distinct dog breed at all, or just another name for an English cur or a sheepdog mix.Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II during a picture-taking session in the salon at Sandringham House. Her pet dog looks up at her.—although there are lots of theories that date Welsh dogs bred for their small legs to prior to the 19th century, there are none with much in the way of supporting evidence, and lots of different proposed etymologies of the word “corgi”.
Queen holding paint can and pet corgi dog mural by artist Mr Brainwash , at the Old Sorting Office, New Oxford Street, London.Elder Welsh newspaper readers at the time observed that the corgis of the 1930s were noticeably changed from the dogs of their youth—not to mention shorter. “In fact,” wrote onein 1934, “very few of the old types of Corgi are to be seen today.
, who was presented to the then-seven-year-old Princess Elizabeth in 1933 as a gift from her father, the Duke of York, and who got her interested in the breed.
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