elizabethQueen Elizabeth II of Britain laying a wreath on the Samadhi of Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat on November 18, 1983. (Categorical archive picture)
Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-serving monarch handed away at Balmoral Fort in Scotland on Thursday (September 8). Whereas the plan of motion following her loss of life was rigorously laid out, there may be uncertainty over the destiny of her cherished canine: the well-known corgis.
An everlasting image of her legacy, the corgi breed has come to be related to Queen Elizabeth’s 70-year-long reign. She had a lifelong love for her pet corgis, who accompanied her throughout holidays and official occasions in Buckingham Palace, her honeymoon, and even featured in her official photographs and portraits. Fed connoisseur meals of rabbit, steak and greens made by royal cooks, the corgis had been even given their very own stockings on Christmas by the Queen, full of toys and doggy treats.
If the British monarchy has survived into the twenty first century, that has rather a lot to do with the style through which Queen Elizabeth II carried the crown. It was a fashion singularly freed from the turbulence that surrounded the late Queen’s seven many years on the throne. The essential cause is that from her tutor at Eton who groomed her to develop into the image of her nation, she realized effectively the excellence that the nineteenth century British political scientist, Walter Bagehot, had drawn between a British monarch’s “dignified” and “efficient” duties. Had she deviated from that distinction and allowed the crown to get caught in a swirl of controversy, it’s uncertain that King Charles III would so easily be moving into the succession.
