The Queen’s corgis are fed in ‘order of seniority’ – and each has their own specially devised menu
WITH a palace for a home and a monarch for an owner, the Queen’s dogs might be the most pampered pooches in the UK.
And it has emerged that bizarrely the beloved pets are fed in “order of seniority” and each has their own specially devised menu.
In the past, the Queen is said to have ensured that her golden-coloured furry friends were kept in good health using homeopathic remedies.
Animal psychologist Dr Roger Mugford revealed to Town & Country what dinner time at Buckingham Palace looked like for the precious corgis.
He said: “At feeding times, each dog had an individually designed menu, including an array of homeopathic and herbal remedies.
"Their food was served by a butler in an eclectic collection of battered silver and porcelain dishes.
"As I watched, the Queen got the corgis to sit in a semi-circle around her, and then fed them one by one, in order of seniority. The others just sat and patiently waited their turn."
The Queen has long been a champion of corgis after she received her first one, called Susan, for her 18th birthday in 1944.
The Queen fell in love with the breed, and all her subsequent corgis can trace their lineage to Susan.
Since then more than 30 of Susan’s line have lapped up the kind of treatment normally reserved for a head of state.
They had their own room at Buckingham Palace, where they slept in wicker beds with the sheets changed daily.
Dinner was at 5pm prompt but there was no canned food in sight. Instead, the diet of liver, chicken, rice and freshly caught rabbit, often from the royal estates, was prepared by chefs.
According to social anthropologist Kate Fox, Her Majesty, 93, loves corgis because they're her "alter-egos" and act as her "inner child".
She said: "Our pets are kind of like our alter egos.
“They're almost what a psychotherapist would call our inner child.
"I think all of this applies eve more to the Royal Family, particularly to the Queen, than to the rest of us. "If you think about it, she has to be even more repressed and inhibited and reserved and dignified, than the rest of us put together, and very rarely gets any opportunity to express what she's really feeling.
“Her inner brat doesn't get let out very often, does it?”
Living a pampered lifestyle where they ate fresh rabbit from silver bowls and were rarely told off, the disobedient hounds bit courtiers, policemen, guardsmen and even the Queen herself.
The Queen rarely speaks publicly about the “private” matter of her dogs,but once said that her “corgis are family”.
The Queen was so devoted to Susan she even went on honeymoon with her and Prince Philip in 1947, first to Broadlands, Hants, then on to Birkhall, Aberdeen.
The dog was covered by a blanket in an open carriage as crowds waved.
Since then the corgis were driven around by chauffeurs and usually carried down aircraft steps by flunkies.
Although she became an expert in the breed over the years, she made the decision to stop breeding them five years ago.
Her Majesty is said to have feared tripping over them, and also worried about who would care for them if she was no longer able to herself.
Her final one, Willow, died last year after she stopped breeding them in 2015.
The Queen still has two dogs - Vulcan and Candy - who are a cross-breed between one of her corgis and late sister Princess Margaret’s dachshund Pipkin.
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