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Dash (1830–1840) was a King Charles Spaniel owned by Queen Victoria.Victoria's biographer Elizabeth Longford, called him "the Queen's closest childhood companion", [1] and in the words of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, he "was the first in a long line of beloved little dogs".
Queen Victoria and her close family kept numerous pet animals, including: . Fatima – a Pug; Alma – a possible Thoroughbred given by King Victor Emmanuel [2]; Dandie – a Skye Terrier [3]
The seated Statue of Queen Victoria, currently in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, was made by John Hughes in 1908 and was originally located in Dublin. Made of bronze, it is situated on the corner of Druitt and George Street in front of the Queen Victoria Building. It was the last royal statue to have been erected in Ireland. [1]
The March Field Air Museum War Dog Memorial in Riverside, California pays tribute to our country's many military dogs. There's even a monument, created by sculptor Thomas Schomberg, which shows a ...
Looty or Lootie was a female Pekingese dog acquired by Captain John Hart Dunne during the looting of the Old Summer Palace (near Beijing) in October of 1860.He presented her to Queen Victoria for the Royal Collection of Dogs, who named her Looty or Lootie in reference to how she was acquired.
The Royal Family has announced that one of Queen Camilla’s dogs, Beth, has died. While the Royal Family have long had an association with Corgis, ever since Queen Elizabeth II’s father King ...
On Friday, Nov. 22, the King, 76, spoke to Royal Variety Performance hosts Amanda Holden and Alan Carr, telling them that he and the Queen plan to get a new dog, according to The Daily Express.
By 1836, Victoria's maternal uncle Leopold, who had been King of the Belgians since 1831, hoped to marry her to Prince Albert, [23] the son of his brother Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Leopold arranged for Victoria's mother to invite her Coburg relatives to visit her in May 1836, with the purpose of introducing Victoria to Albert. [24]