Friday, 29 Mar 2024

Royal shock: The surprising pet Queen’s grandfather kept at Buckingham Palace – revealed

The British Royal Family has a long history of keeping and breeding animals. Queen Elizabeth II is famously precious of her beloved racehorses and likes nothing more than taking her dogs for a walk. Long before the Queen was known for having corgis, her grandfather King George V kept an unlikely pet at the Palace.

A special feature on royal pets in The Lady magazine reports the late King George had a parrot which was allowed to fly wherever it pleased.

The Lady reported: “When the York Family lived at 145 Piccadilly the young Princess Elizabeth played all day with family pets, the dogs that were always around and also the caged budgerigars that were not allowed the freedom of the house, unlike the pet parrot belonging to her grandfather King George V, across the road at Buckingham Palace, which was encouraged to go wherever it liked, with no rooms sacrosanct.”

Before the Queen had corgis, Shih Tzus were the royal dog of choice and the Queen’s father had one named Choo-Choo.

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While the last of the Queen’s corgis sadly died in 2018, she still keeps dorgis (corgi-dachshund crosses) to this day.

Prankster Prince Philip is reported to have played a practical joke on the Queen involving her dogs in the past.

The Duke of Edinburgh, 98, once tried to impress a dinner guest by hiding one of the Queen’s corgis in a cupboard, a royal insider has claimed.

A Buckingham Palace source told Express.co.uk: “Philip hid a corgi in a desk cupboard and when the Queen asked him where it was, he said he didn’t know.”

Philip’s prank backfired when the hidden pooch made a noise on hearing the Queen’s voice.

The source continued: “But then the dog whined after hearing the Queen’s voice, so Philip let it out and it ran to her.”

The trick prompted outrage from Her Majesty when she discovered what her husband had done.

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According to the source, an unamused Queen told Philip to “stop showing off to guests” before leaving the room.

Philip didn’t hold back following his fuming wife’s departure but joked with the dinner guest instead.

The source revealed he “turned to the guest and said ‘who does she think she is?’”

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