Queen Elizabeth II has had many pet's during her 70-year reign. Here is everything we know.
. 'The corgis took to you straight away,' Harry revealed in the couple's engagement interview with ITV in 2017. 'I’ve spent the last 33 years being barked at – this one walks in, absolutely nothing.' According to Meghan, they were 'just laying on my feet during tea, it was very sweet.'
In 1944, on her 18th birthday, the Queen was gifted a corgi named Susan, from whom the rest of her corgis are said to be descended. Her Majesty had a strong bond with her, so strong that the Queen snuck Susan on her honeymoon in 1947 - much to the despair of husbandHow many corgis did the Queen have at the end of her life?
On to more unique gifts: In 1957, the Royal Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural Society presented her majesty with a cow called Beauchamp Oxford Lady. In the 1960s, the Queen received a veritable menagerie of wild animals, including a pair of pygmy hippopotamus from the president of Liberia, which she donated to London Zoo. Other quirky animal gifts include two American beavers, an Arctic fox from Canada, two giant anteaters, a sloth from Brazil and a young Nile crocodile from Gambia.
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