Prince Andrew has become an awkward new figure in the long public story of the royal corgis, with the Daily Express reporting on March 14 that Queen Elizabeth II's surviving dogs, Muick and Sandy, are now in his care at Wood Farm in Norfolk and that some blame his association with them for damaging the breed's once gilded image. What was once one of the most recognisable symbols of the late queen's reign is now caught up in the kind of reputational mess that seems to follow Andrew everywhere.
The news came after years in which the corgi was treated almost as an extension of Elizabeth's public identity. According to the Daily Express, her affection for the breed began in childhood after she fell for a neighbour's corgi, and deepened when her father, then Duke of York, gave her and Princess Margaret a dog called Dookie.
