Welcome to Brain Stuff, a production of I Heart Radio.

Hey, Brain Stuff, Lauren Volgobom here.

Britain's longest-serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, died September 8th of 2022, at the

age of 96.

The monarch keep and its modern powers and assets are twistingly complex, and certainly

worth a number of episodes.

But today, let's talk about an element that served to humanize the Queen, her love of

corgis.

The Queen owned purebred corgis for more than eight decades, and for stretches in the

1980s, she collected packs of up to 13 at a time, and most of them bred on the premises

at Windsor Castle.

The small, ready-haired corgi breed known as the Welsh Pembroke are so closely associated

with the Queen that many people think it's an official royal line that goes back centuries.

Before the article this episode is based on, how stuff works spoke here of Farrell,

Librarian and Collections Manager at the UK Kennel Club back in 2019.

As she said, not to question, we're asked a lot, is the corgi of royal dog?

Do they have a long association with the royal family?

The answer is no, the Queen got one when she was a young girl, and has been devoted to

them ever since.

The Queen's very first corgi was bought in 1933 by her father, King George VI, the

when he was still the Duke of York.

Elizabeth, then seven years old, and her younger sister Margaret, started out calling the

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