In the wake of the Queen’s death, Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson will take care of Her Majesty’s beloved corgis.
The Duke of York’s spokesperson said he and Sarah, Duchess of York, will look after Muick and Sandy – two dogs Queen Elizabeth II was gifted.
Prince Andrew gave his mother Muick, a corgi, and Fergus, a dorgi during lockdown in 2021.
The Queen had more than 30 corgis over the years.
(Image: Getty)When Fergus died in May 2021, Prince Andrew’s daughters Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice gifted their grandmother the Queen another corgi named Sandy.
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“The corgis will return to live at Royal Lodge [on the Windsor Estate] with the Duke and Duchess,” a source close to Prince Andrew told the BBC.
Royal fans have taken to social media to express their disappointment that the embattled prince will be taking in the dogs.
“I feel so bad for those dogs,” one person wrote on Twitter, while another said: “Apparently Prince Andrew is to take in the Queen’s corgis … After all he is good at grooming.”
The comments were in reference to Prince Andrew’s sexual assault legal battle. The duke settled his sexual assault case with Jeffrey Epstein survivor Virginia Roberts Giuffre out of court earlier this year.
Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson will look after two of the late Queen’s dogs.
(Image: Getty)The Queen’s dorgi was a Dachshund and a Welsh Corgi mix, and was one of two dogs given to Her Majesty to cheer her after Prince Philip fell ill.
The Queen named the dog Fergus after her maternal uncle Fergus Bowes-Lyon, who died in France during World War I. The second pup, Muick, is named after Loch Muick, a lake on the Balmoral Estate in Scotland, and was a corgi.
Her love for corgis started when she was a teenager, ever since her 18th birthday when she was given Susan, a corgi, as a gift.
It’s still unclear who will take care of the Queen’s two other dogs, a cocker spaniel named Lissy and a dachshund corgi hybrid named Candy.
Royal experts previously speculated that other family members may take them in.
Her Majesty bred Pembroke Welsh corgis ever since, and owned more than 30 in her lifetime.
The Queen passed away on September 8, 2022, at the age of 96, at her beloved Scottish retreat Balmoral.
The official announcement of her death came just hours after Buckingham Palace gave a sombre update on her health.
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