As a writer for design and lifestyle magazines, I get a lot of press releases via email. None, however, have made me giggle quite so much as one that arrived this morning...
Spoonflower is a North Carolina-based firm that lets you design and print your own textiles, wall coverings and even wrapping papers. (How cool is that?)
So with their existing archive of 300+ corgi designs and ahead of Queen Elizabeth's ninetieth birthday this Saturday, they've released a body pillow of Her Majesty and ninety different corgi pillows.
I die.
They even thoughtfully included twelve factoids about the Queen and her corgis, which I'll paste below the images.
Enjoy. And by all means, plump gently.
Spoonflower is a North Carolina-based firm that lets you design and print your own textiles, wall coverings and even wrapping papers. (How cool is that?)
So with their existing archive of 300+ corgi designs and ahead of Queen Elizabeth's ninetieth birthday this Saturday, they've released a body pillow of Her Majesty and ninety different corgi pillows.
I die.
They even thoughtfully included twelve factoids about the Queen and her corgis, which I'll paste below the images.
Enjoy. And by all means, plump gently.
12 Things You
Never Knew About The Queen And Her Corgis
The Queen has
owned more than 30 corgis (but none, as far as we can tell, with a name longer
than two syllables).
Pembroke Welsh
Corgis are her favorite breed.
She has loved
corgis since she was a small child, after first encountering those owned by the
children of the Marquess of Bath.
The first corgi
she ever owned was called Dookie, which her father, the future King George VI,
brought home for his daughters Elizabeth and Margaret in 1933.
Elizabeth, age
7, picked Dookie from a choice of three Corgi pups, reportedly because of his
longer tail – “So that we can see whether he’s pleased or not”.
When still young
princesses, Elizabeth and her sister Margaret, invented the “dorgi”, by cross
breeding Elizabeth’s corgi, Tiny, with Margaret’s dachshund, Pipkin.
On her 18th
birthday in 1954, the future queen was given a corgi named Susan.
She was so fond
of Susan that she took her on honeymoon after marrying Prince Philip in 1947.
Susan founded a
corgi dynasty, spanning at least 10 generations of royal corgis.
Susan became one
of several royal corgis to bite royal servants, when she nipped Leonard
Hubbard, the Royal Clockwinder, as he was entering the Royal Lodge Windsor in
1954.
Holly and
Willow, the Queen’s current corgis, are the last two remaining of a once
13-strong pack.
Holly and Willow
seem likely to be the Queen’s last corgis, after the announcement last year
that she had ended her breeding programme.