Cuddles With Corgis To Have a good time Queen Elizabeth’s Favorite Canine

Corgis are closely associated with Queen Elizabeth II, who glorifies her Platinum Jubilee this week.

Queen Elizabeth has stopped promoting corgis, however, stored two “dorgis” to keep her firm in her remaining years.

London:  Wearing a Union Jack bandana, Obi the corgi stares intently at the camera as he snuggles on a floral sofa with a woman in a tiara.

“The queen would approve,” his owner says after the photo session, giving him a snack.

Corgis — lively brown-and-white dogs with pointed ears and short legs — are closely associated with Queen Elizabeth II, who celebrates her Platinum Jubilee this week.

At the “Corgi Cam” pop-up in London’s historic Leadenhall Market, visitors can take pictures with a rotating team of dogs while dressing up in faux ermine robes, crowns, and tiaras.

The 96-year-old queen has kept Pembroke Welsh Corgis since she was 18 and even appeared with her dogs in a spoof James Bond clip filmed for the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics.

The free Corgi Cam event outstripped expectations, with some waiting several hours to attend, says organizer Katie Raby.

She says, “Everyone associates the dog with her majesty, and we wanted to be able to celebrate that.”

The breed recently experienced a rush of interest due to the Netflix series “The Crown,” but it remains pretty rare in the United Kingdom.

“Many people have never actually met a corgi,” Raby says. “There aren’t many around these days.”

The event runs from midday to 6 pm, with people getting about five minutes each with a corgi slot.

“They’re used to doing gigs with members of the public, and they’re very used to being fussed over,” Raby says of the dogs.

‘Rare breed’

“We’d just seen this and thought we’d come down,” says Ria Measom, 23, posing with her university friend, Megan Oakley, 24, in a red robe, crown, and tiara.

“We’ve been queuing for about two hours,” Measom says. “But it was worth it because they brought the corgis out, and we could pet them while we waited.”

“It’s good. I think the queen would like it; she should bring her corgis,” she says, giggling.

“We’d never seen one (a corgi) this close before,” adds Oakley. “They’re really soft.”

Another visitor, Zaida Flores, has brought along her parents, who are visiting from Ecuador, and they sit together with two of the dogs.

Flores, 31, wears a tiara on her long, green-tinted hair.

“We like dogs; we’re dog lovers, so it was a really nice experience,” she says.

Emma Warren-Brown, a dog expert, is watching the sessions and checking the animals are happy and healthy.

“It’s so nice to see the public’s reaction to corgis because actually, you don’t see many of them around,” she says.

“They are what we would call a rare breed.”

“We’ve really got to hope that their popularity surges. I’d hate to see them die out because, as a breed, that’s what would happen. And of course, they are synonymous with the queen.”

The queen stopped raising corgis in her 90s but kept two “corgis” — dachshund and corgi cross — to keep her company in her final years.

One, Vulcan, died in 2020. The other, Candy, was in March 2021, joined by two new corgi puppies — Muick and Sandy — during the coronavirus lockdown.