Passing the Buckingham Palace shop opposite the Royal Mews, I noticed hecatombs of corgis piled in the window and wondered whether tourists still identified them with British royalty.

Anyway, what happened to the last of the corgis? Muick (pronounced Mick) and a dorgi (dachshund-corgi mix) called Fergus were given to the late Queen by her son Andrew to comfort her while her husband, aged 99, was recovering from heart surgery. But Fergus died – from a heart defect. On what would have been Prince Philip’s 100th birthday, Queen Elizabeth was given Sandy by Andrew and his daughters, Beatrice and Eugenie. After the Queen’s death, Muick and Sandy were looked after by Andrew and his former wife, Sarah, Duchess of York. But what became of the poor doggies when Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was evicted from Royal Lodge, Windsor?

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