In 1944, King George VI gave his daughter Elizabeth a corgi named Susan for her 18th birthday. The future queen adored the breed and later helped make these small working dogs into a royal mainstay.
In recent years, social media has boosted the breed’s popularity. “They are just so photogenic,” Dan McLemore, a corgi enthusiast, said during the Summer Corgi Nationals, an event held in Arcadia, Calif. “They are short, stocky, funny-looking, active — and they just always look like they are smiling all the time.”
