Royal family announces death of Queen Camilla’s dog Beth

Queen Camilla and the remainder of the British royal household are mourning the nonaccomplishment of her longtime canine sidekick Beth.

The Jack Russell Terrier had an untreatable tumor and had to beryllium enactment down implicit the weekend, People reported Monday. The canine had been the Queen’s changeless companion since 2011, erstwhile she adopted the favored from Battersea Dogs and Cats Home successful South London. A twelvemonth aboriginal different dog, the aforesaid breed, joined them, besides from Battersea.

Queen Camilla doted connected Beth, arsenic evidenced by the photograph montage the royal household posted connected its societal media accounts.

“A sad farewell to Beth, the Queen’s much-loved companion,” the royals’ Instagram and twitter accounts captioned a photograph of Camilla walking the pup, “who brought specified joy, whether connected walkies, helping connected authoritative duties, oregon curled up by the fire.”

The photos showed Beth cavorting with the 77-year-old queen, rubbing noses with King Charles, and adjacent helping unveil a plaque astatine the Battersea Dogs and Cats Home successful 2020. Beth and Bluebell besides stole the amusement successful the couple’s 15th-anniversary photos, which featured them snuggled successful the monarchs’ laps.

So devoted was Camilla to her pups that she had their likenesses embroidered successful golden thread connected her coronation gown.