Queen_Victoria's_pets
Queen Victoria's pets
Domestic creatures kept by the British monarch
Queen Victoria and her close family kept numerous pet animals, including:
- Fatima – a Pug
- Alma – a Shetland pony given by King Victor Emmanuel[1]
- Dandie – a Skye Terrier[1]
- Dash – a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel[1]
- Eos – a greyhound which Prince Albert brought from Germany[1]
- Flora – a Highland pony given by King Victor Emmanuel[1]
- Goats – Mohammad Shah Qajar, the Shah of Persia, presented Queen Victoria with a pair of Tibetan goats upon her accession to the throne. From these, a royal goat herd was established at Windsor. Goats from this herd were then used as regimental mascots by regiments such as the Royal Welch Fusiliers.[2]
- Nero – a greyhound[1]
- Islay – a Skye terrier.[1] Victoria owned Islay for five years and he died after losing a fight with a cat.[3]
- Jacquot – a donkey[1]
- Unknown name – a lory[1]
- Looty – one of the first Pekingese in Britain, stolen from the Xianfeng Emperor of China, from his Chinese Summer Palace, during the Second Opium War[4]
- Marco – a small spitz which was the first of her many Pomeranians.[5]
- Hector – a deerhound[1]
- Noble – the Queen's favourite collie.[1] A statue by Princess Louise is in Osborne House.[6]
- Picco – a Sardinian pony[1]
- Sharp – a collie[7][8]
- Turi – a Pomeranian who lay on her deathbed at her request[1]
- Coco – An African grey parrot[9][10][11]
Wednesday 18 May 1836
Dear Uncle Ernest made me the present of a most delightful Lory, which is so tame, that it remains on your hand, & you may put your finger into its beak, or do any thing with it without its ever attempting to bite. It is larger than Mamma's Grey Parrot, & has a most beautiful plumage; it is scarlet, blue, brown, yellow & purple.
Queen Victoria's journal (18 May 1836)