From the book British dogs their varieties, history, characteristics, breeding, management and exhibition by Hugh Dalziel, 1879Plumpie the chow who was bred to a white pomeranian, from an article in The Westminster Budget (London, England) · March 15, 1895Two illustrations from The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · July 11, 1897Dogdom magazine, December 1907Dogdom magazine, December 1907The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) · 20 Oct 1912, Sun · Page 24The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) · 8 Jan 1922, Sun · Page 48The Weekly Dispatch (London, England) · 3 Jun 1923, Sun · Page 9Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral Castle with one of her corgis, September 28, 1952 UPI COLOR SLIDE/GETTY IMAGES
And now Queen Elizabeth II is gone.
I read that she stopped breeding some ten years back as she didn’t want to leave any dogs to grieve for her.
Yes. She did, I believe, still have a corgi mix related to her corgi line, but she had stopped breeding and placed any dogs not ready to be retired.