When Queen Elizabeth II passed away in September 2022, she left behind four corgis: Muick, Sandy, Candy, and Lissie. The question of what would become of them was quickly answered: Sarah Ferguson, her former daughter-in-law, offered to keep them.
At the time, it seemed like a nice, almost emotional gesture. Now, according to the Daily Mail, there is another side to the story.
Apparently, Sarah Ferguson’s plan was not exactly sentimental. According to the report, the former Duchess of York had considered using the dogs for business from the start, whether through a TV show, by breeding them, or by cloning them directly to sell them.
Why the Queen’s corgis could be worth a fortune if cloned, and who would pay for them
As crazy as it may sound, there is a market for cloning. According to the Daily Mail, there are aristocrats with enough money who are willing to pay a fortune to own a dog that is genetically identical to the one Elizabeth II used to pet. Not a puppy of the same breed, but an exact copy produced in a laboratory.
Cloning pets is banned in Europe and the United Kingdom, but it is completely legal in the United States.
According to reports, Ferguson is said to have contacted a U.S. laboratory to explore this possibility.
The news about the corgis comes at a particularly sensitive time for Ferguson, whose name has been linked to Jeffrey Epstein for months.
As has come to light, Fergie had a close friendship with him and frequently asked him for money to cover her usual financial problems.
What is most striking is the double standard she is alleged to have maintained. In public, she discredited him, but in private, she apologized to him and referred to him as her “faithful and supreme friend.”
One of her emails, written in 2011 after the accusations against Epstein had already landed him in jail, has been made public. In it, she apologized to him for what had been published about her and clarified that she had never used the word “pedophile” to refer to him.