As the UK mourns the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, who died aged 96, there are questions about what comes next.
Whilst many of them are questions of state, and matters of pomp and ceremony, there's some speculation as to what will happen to the Queen's beloved dogs.
At the time of her death, the Queen had four dogs.
She left behind two Corgis, Muick and Sandy, and a Dorgi (Dachshund and Corgi mix) named Candy. The Queen also had a prize-winning cocker spaniel called Lizzie, which joined the royal household in January 2022.
There has been no official plan released publicly on who will look after the dogs, but a royal biographer told Newsweek recently it was possible they could go to her children - and one in particular.
"She loves animals and she absolutely adores dogs. She always has done, they were her first love and they will be her last," Ingrid Seward told Newsweek.
"I imagine the dogs would be looked after by the family, probably Andrew. He's the one that gave them to her, they're quite young, the corgi and the dorgi."
But in a 2018 book, royal author Penny Junor said she believed the dogs would go to the Queen's staff.
"Care of the dogs has fallen sometimes to footmen but mostly to the Queen's trusted dressmaker, assistant and right-hand woman, Angela Kelly; and to her equally trusted page of many years standing, Paul Whybrew, who was seen walking with the Queen and the dogs in the James Bond spoof," she wrote in her 2018 book, All The Queen's Corgis.
"Both are fond of the dogs, have unfettered access to the Queen and are said to be very close to her," Junor said.
There have been 30 Corgis who have walked the halls of Buckingham Palace with the Queen.
Her love for corgis began in 1933 when she was gifted Susan the corgi for her 18th birthday.
All subsequent royal corgis bred by the monarch are descended from Susan.
Horse trainer and long-time adviser to the Queen, Monty Roberts said the Queen stopped breeding corgis in 2015, as she "didn't want to leave any behind."
