“Please Sir, not in front of the Corgis.”
Probably no other British monarch has been as identified with a dog breed as Queen Elizabeth II and her Corgis. “My corgis are my family,” she once said, and indeed, she took personal care of them. As of 2015, she had only “Holly” and “Willow” left and had stopped breeding Corgis, but from the 1950s, Her Majesty personally oversaw a corgi breeding program based in Windsor Castle. As for the quote which prefaced this post, it refers to a joke made by author, Brian Hooey, to a pair of young footmen whispering in a corridor in Windsor Castle. “Are you conspiring?” he asked, to which they replied, “Please Sir, not in front of the Corgis.” It was an expression that meant that when the Corgis were seen approaching, The Queen was not far behind. It became the title of Hooey’s book sharing “secrets of life behind the royal curtains.”
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