London: A key question about Britain’s royal succession was resolved on Sunday when it emerged that Prince Andrew and his ex-wife will care for Queen Elizabeth II’s corgi dogs after her death. The prince and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson will face Mewick and Sandi after the queen died at Balmoral on Thursday aged 96, Andrew’s spokesman said. Andrew — the Queen’s third son and often referred to as her favorite — and Ferguson had gifted Mike and Sandy to the Queen. Pets have been a comfort to the Queen while at Windsor Castle during the coronavirus pandemic, her dresser Angela Kelly has said. The fate of the two corgis — the latest in a long line of more than 30 of the short-legged sandy dogs throughout Elizabeth’s reign — has been a mystery. Muick joined the royal family in early 2021 along with a so-called “dorgie”, a cross between a corgi and a dachshund, named Fergus. Fergus died after just five months and was later replaced with Sandy, a new corgi puppy from Andrew and his daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, for the Queen’s official 95th birthday. The corgi gifts came in the same year that Prince Andrew stepped down from public duties amid the scandal surrounding his relationship with convicted American pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. In February, Andrews settled a sexual assault lawsuit in the United States with one of Epstein’s victims after he was previously stripped of his honorary military titles. He and Ferguson married in a highly publicized wedding in 1986 and split ten years later, but remain on good terms and share a home near Windsor Castle. (Other than the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published by a syndicated feed.)
