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The Queen’s pet dog interrupted the monarch during a memorabilia viewing of items from golden and platinum jubilees.
Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee is to be celebrated on Sunday (February 6) and she was viewing cards from jubilee well-wishers.
However, one inquisitive member of her household wanted a sneak preview in her dog Candy.
Candy trotted into the oak room at Windsor Castle and she made a lap of the room, inspecting a small group of media representatives capturing the viewing.
The Queen looking through Jubilee cards (PA)
The Queen said: “And where did you come from? I know what you want,” likely to be a reference to a treat, and called Candy over and gave her a stroke.
During her reign The Queen, who has owned more than 30 corgis, and currently has three dogs.
They are Candy now quite elderly, a young corgi called Muick, and another corgi puppy which replaced Fergus the dorgi (a cross between a corgi and a dachshund) puppy, who died unexpectedly in May last year.
Amongst the cards one celebrating the 2002 Golden Jubilee caught the Queen’s eye – it was made from eight bottle tops including milk, Coca-Cola and Schweppes bottles, and had the handwritten words “Ma’am You’re The Tops”.
“That’s good, simple but ingenious,” said the Queen to Dr Stella Panayotova, librarian and assistant keeper of the royal archives, who joined her for the viewing two weeks ago.
