Corgis, these puppies that Elizabeth II adored, have reached record prices in the United Kingdom since the death of the queen, who had thirty of them throughout her life.
“Prices charged by registered corgi breeders hit a new high today,” a spokesperson for Pets4Homes, a UK pet sales website, said on Monday.
Average prices have “doubled” in the last three days, according to this source. “In the most recent announcements, prices for some corgis broke the £2,500 bar for the first time.”
Ten times more searches
The site records “a number of daily searches for corgis ten times higher than last week at the same time.”
This represents an increase in demand and prices that exceeds even that registered during the period of the pandemic, which nevertheless represented a peak in pet sales.
These puppies, with pointed ears and long backs, are inseparable from the image of Elizabeth II. The queen bred generations of them, with a preference for the Pembroke breed, but she also created the “dorgi”, a cross between the corgi and the dachshund.
Elizabeth II received her first corgi, Susan, when she turned 18 in 1944. By then, the breed’s popularity had risen 56 percent, says the Kennel Club, Britain’s largest dog health and training organization.
The rating of the corgis has also risen with the series The crown, which traces the life of Elizabeth II throughout the decades. Between the airing of the show’s first season in 2017 and 2020, Pembroke corgi puppy registrations nearly doubled according to the Kennel Club.
last two corgis
When she died on September 8, Elizabeth II still had two corgis, Muick and Sandy, who participated in their own way in the funeral. On the steps of Windsor Castle, escorted by two guards, they waited for the funeral procession, which left London after the monarch’s grandiose funeral, to ascend the Long Walk to the castle, where the sovereign was buried on September 19.
They were adopted by Andrés, the youngest son of Elizabeth II.
Source: BFM TV
