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- Mar. 18, 1991: Corgi And Bess
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Mar. 18, 1991 A Moment To Savor
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 72
- Corgi and Bess
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- <p>By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- <p> The royal hand that rules Britannia is no safer than a mail
- carrier's leg when it comes to obstreperous canines. Queen
- Elizabeth learned that last week when a dogfight erupted while
- she strolled around Windsor Castle with a pack of pet corgis.
- She waded into the melee to break it up, and a disloyal beast
- bit her left hand, drawing blue blood. Her Majesty required
- three stitches and wore bandages as she went about her duties.
- She is often accompanied by her regalia of the breed--palace
- watchers call them her "puddle of corgis"--and puts down
- their food daily. The guilty pooch has not been named, but
- hardly a single reporter failed to note that it had bit the hand
- that...
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