Whereas mourning the lack of her beloved corgi Susan, Queen Elizabeth took the time to write down a transferring letter to the veterinarian who cared for the canine previous to her passing.
The Pembroke Welsh corgi the queen obtained as a present for her 18th birthday died on January 26, 1959, 64 years in the past at this time. However Susan’s reminiscence lived on within the 14 future generations of royal corgis bred from her litter who have been the monarch’s treasured pets over the course of her lengthy life. Following Susan’s dying, the queen wrote a thanks notice to Harold Swann, the veterinarian who tried to save lots of the corgi’s life. “I wish to thanks for all you probably did for my pricey outdated Susan when she grew to become unwell, and for the immense quantity of hassle you took in getting her despatched to Cambridge and for all of the care she had whereas she was there,” she wrote on the time. “I had all the time dreaded dropping her as I had had her since she was six weeks outdated, however I’m ever so grateful that her struggling was so mercifully brief.” She then signed the letter, “Yours sincerely, Elizabeth R.” The “R” on this case stands for “Regina,” the Latin phrase for queen. Susan was later buried on the royal’s Sandringham property and given a tombstone that learn, “For nearly 15 years, the devoted companion of the Queen.”
In line with creator of The Corgi and the Queen, Caroline L. Perry, Queen Elizabeth “personally selected the inscription for the gravestone,” she informed Folks. She added, “Susan was there for a lot of of crucial moments in Elizabeth’s life. She was by her royal companion’s aspect when Elizabeth joined a ladies’s regiment when the Princess served her nation through the warfare. She was there when her companion married Prince Philip, who grew to become the second love of Elizabeth’s life! Susan additionally offered consolation when Elizabeth’s beloved ‘Papa’ King George VI died; when she was topped Queen on the age of solely 25, and when she grew to become a mom.” Perry concluded, “Susan’s legacy was enduring. Due to her—and her descendants—the corgi will perpetually be the image of the second Elizabethan age.”
The monarch stopped breeding her favourite pet in 2015 as she did not want to depart any behind when she died. Nonetheless, in March 2021, shortly earlier than the dying of her husband Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth obtained two puppies. When one of many canines died only a few weeks later, she was gifted one other pet by her son Prince Andrew on what would have been Philip’s a hundredth birthday. Following the queen’s passing in September of final 12 months, her two corgis, Muick and Sandy, have been taken in by Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson. The Duchess of York shared what a “nice honor” it was to take care of the late monarch’s pets, telling the viewers on the Henley Literary Competition in October that the canines are “nationwide treasures” and had “been taught effectively” by the queen. “All of them steadiness out,” she mentioned of her seven canines. “The carpet strikes as I transfer, however I’ve acquired used to it now.”
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