Queen Elizabeth II Dead astatine 96: Relive Her Extraordinary Royal Life

Not lone was Queen Elizabeth II the monarch to a federation and matriarch to the British royal family, but she was besides a beloved canine mom.

Throughout her 70-year reign, the Queen—who died connected Sept. 8 astatine the property of 96—lovingly cared for dozens of pups, including a gaggle of corgis. Her fondness for pooches began astatine a young property and, aft she was gifted a corgi named Susan by her father King George VI on her 18th birthday, she was ne'er acold from from a four-legged person again. Legend adjacent has it that Her Majesty brought Susan on to her honeymoon with Prince Philip.

But the Queen's emotion of dogs extended acold beyond the corgi breed. In fact, she had a manus successful creating the dorgi, a cross-breed of dachshund and corgi, erstwhile her corgi Tiny mated with Princess Margaret's dachshund Pipkin successful the 1970s. Since then, the Queen continued to beryllium a favored genitor to some corgis and corgi-mixes, arsenic good arsenic a fig of cocker spaniels. 

In solemnisation of her 90th day successful 2016, the royal appeared on the screen of Vanity Fair with 4 of her furry companions: corgis Holly and Willow and dorgis Vulcan and Candy. Overall, the Queen owned much than 30 antithetic pups—many of whom were descendants from her archetypal dog Susan—since she ascended to the throne successful 1952.