“It’s pronounced ‘My-Lee’,” Beth Mead explains as her working cocker spaniel scampers around her St Albans flat. “But we spelt it ‘Myle’. We didn’t want people thinking she was named after Miley Cyrus.”
With or without popstar billing, a one-year-old dog has become the unintended centrepiece of a photoshoot supposed to mark Mead’s inclusion in the Standard’s list of the 100 people shaping London.