Queen Elizabeth’s playful side came out in a series of letters to her former equerry — written from her belovedcorgisto the staff member’s dogs!
“He would write these letters from their Jack Russell to the corgis, and the Queen would write these letters back,” Armstrong recalled, according toThe Telegraph. “And they put this series of letters up, and they are so funny. I wish I could remember them.”
Armstrong added that the notes were so “wickedly funny” that he had to hold his stomach from laughing.
Queen Elizabeth and her dogs.Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images
While the 94-year-old monarch is known for her stoic nature, she is “much livelier in privatethan what the public sees,” royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith previously told PEOPLE.
The author quoted a source at the Queen’s country estate in Norfolk once saying, " ‘You can hear her laugh throughout that big house.’ She has a big laugh!"
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Queen Elizabeth at Balmoral with one of her corgis.Lisa Sheridan/Studio Lisa/Getty Images
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Queen Elizabethhas owned corgis and dorgis (a cross with a dachshund) all her adult life, but was down to her last one, Candy,following the death of another dorgi, Vulcan, late last year.
She recently added two new puppies to the family: a dorgi called Fergus, named after her late uncle who died during World War I in 1915 Fergus Bowes-Lyon, and a corgi called Muick, named after Loch Muick on the Queen’s beloved summer escape, Balmoral estate in Scotland.
source: people.com
