Queen Elizabeth was not only fond of her corgis, but apparently gave them a hilarious voice of their own.
According to broadcaster Alexander Armstrong, the late queen — who died on Thursday aged 96 — used to love writing letters on behalf of her royal pooches to other dogs.
Armstrong explained in the ITV documentary “The Queen and her Cousins” that the monarch had a hilarious habit of writing letters from her precious corgis to her staff members’ dogs. He said he even hung up a handwritten letter from the queen’s former equerry, Sir Blair Stewart-Wilson, in his bathroom.
“He [Stewart-Wilson] would write these letters from their Jack Russell to the corgis and the Queen would write these letters back,” Armstrong explained in the documentary.
“And they put this series of letters up, and they are so funny,” he recalled. “I wish I could remember them. I remember holding my stomach, howling with laughter because they are wickedly funny.”
Queen Elizabeth was famously fond of her four-legged friends, with her passion for corgis dating all the way back to her childhood.
In fact, the royal — who fell in love with the breed at age 7 — loved her dogs so much that she created her own hybrid breed with her sister Princess Margaret in the 1970s, called the “dorgi” — a cross between a dachshund and a corgi.
Queen Elizabeth went on to own 30 corgis and dorgis during her lifetime. She leaves behind four dogs, including two corgis, one dorgi named Candy and a cocker spaniel called Lissy.
The Duke and Duchess of York — Prince Andrew and ex-wife Sarah Ferguson — are taking the corgis that belonged to the late queen since Fergie “bonded” with the dogs during walks.
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