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Posh pets

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March 08, 2025

KING Charles’s new dog breed is the latest “mutt have” for pooch-potty Brits, as the Daily Star revealed yesterday.

Posh pets

Sales of the little-known lagotto romagnolo, above, from Italy, are soaring after the monarch welcomed cute puppy Snuff into the Royal family.

But some blue-blooded folk have kept much more unusual critters for pets, as JAMES MOORE reveals...

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Queen Elizabeth II, known for her love of corgis, once had a pet chameleon. At 15, Lord Louis Mountbatten gave her one of the colour-changing creatures as a gift. She and sister Margaret fed it on dead flies and kept it in a box lined with pages from etiquette manual Debrett’s. When it died, Princess Elizabeth buried the animal in a special white coffin.

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