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Royal watchers will know that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry recently had their application to trademark ‘Archewell’, their new charitable foundation, allegedly rejected — although some say it is still being reviewed. Kate and William on the other hand successfully filed to trademark their non-profit organisation, ‘The Royal Foundation of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’ after the Sussexes decided to set up their own platform last year. However, the couple were actually embroiled in a different trademark row a few years ago.

Writing in The Telegraph in 2014, Tim Walker revealed that author Aby King was trying to trademark ‘Lupo the Royal Dog’.

He explained: “Aby King may now be talking to producers about turning her book The Adventures of Lupo the Royal Dog into a film, but the enterprising author’s attempts to build a still bigger business around the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s cocker spaniel have been reined in.”

The Intellectual Property Office denied her application.

She told Mr Walker: “I wasn’t expecting it, but apparently because Lupo the Dog is a possession of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, it falls under their own ownership and so I can’t trademark it.

“The odd thing is that there didn’t seem to be anything in the law specifying animals in the Royal Family before.

“Do the royal dogs now have patronage?”

Lupo came from a litter from the Middleton family dog.

Kate and William decided to take him on in 2012 when the Duchess of Sussex was worried she might be lonely while her husband was away on a six-week trip to the Falkland Islands.

Kate, like the rest of the Royal Family, has a great fondness for man’s best friend and is often caught petting dogs on her royal engagements.

After being rejected, Ms King subsequently revised her trademark to ‘The Adventures of a Royal Dog’, which is the name of her children’s book series about Lupo.

This trademark was then approved by the IPO.

Still, according to Mr Walker, the Cambridges were “oddly protective of [Lupo] from the start”.

Indeed the couple refused to tell the public what the dog’s name was initially because, their spokesman said, it was a “private matter”.

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Ms King first got the idea when she saw the couple had a dog like her own in the newspapers.

She said: “I started to think about what life as a royal puppy, with palaces and parks at your disposal, might be like.”

Lupo is thought to be an essential part of the Cambridges’ family life.

Kate and William took him on before their eldest, Prince George, was born, so all three of their children have grown up with the dog.

The couple is also said to have allowed Lupo to choose George’s name after they could not settle on one.

They reportedly left scraps of paper around their house with different names written on them, and whichever one Lupo put his paw on, that was expected to be their first born’s name.

Ms King makes references to George and Princess Charlotte, too, throughout her children’s books and the Queen’s corgis also make an appearance in the fiction.

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