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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Kristin Contino

Exclusive: Former Royal Butler Reveals He Once Rescued One of Queen Elizabeth's Drowning Corgis From a Frozen Lake in Christmas "Disaster"

Queen Elizabeth sitting on a sofa with a corgi.

For royal staff members, Christmas at Sandringham is a hectic, yet strictly scheduled time of year, but despite their set-in-stone traditions and time tables, things occasionally do go wrong. Princess Diana's former royal butler, Paul Burrell, tells Marie Claire that along with singed eyebrows and BB gun fiascos, the unthinkable almost happened with one of Queen Elizabeth's corgis.

Speaking on behalf of Casino.org, Burrell says, "One year, I had a real disaster. The lake at Sandringham had frozen over, and one of the corgis decided to try and cross it."

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