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Revealed: The royal who wanted to 'shoot' Queen Elizabeth's corgis
Britain's late Queen Elizabeth II 's deep love for her corgis is known throughout the world and they rarely left her side. She received her very first corgi, Susan, as a birthday present in 1944 when she turned 18, and went on to own more than 30 of Susan's descendants. However, one member of the royal family once revealed her disdain for the Queen's precious pooches. Princess Michael of Kent, who was once reportedly banned from giving interviews because of her propensity to make controversial comments, was apparently not a fan of the royal dogs. The wife of Prince Michael of Kent, a grandson of King George V, caused a stir in 2014 when she branded older royals as 'boring' and Princess Diana 'uneducated'. Princess Michael, 80, was promoting her book at the time and made the shocking comments during an interview on Canadian TV with convicted fraudster and former newspaper tycoon Conrad Black. But it seems her habit of speaking without a filter extends to her family members as well, and she allegedly made a quip about Elizabeth's dogs that went unappreciated. She went on to own 30 of Susan's descendants throughout her life and the dogs remained her close companions until her death in 2022 According to author Karen Dolby's book, The Wicked Wit of Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Michael was once asked what she thought of the monarch's corgis. Shockingly, the 80-year-old is believed to have said that the corgis 'should be shot'. Such a comment would no doubt have taken the Queen aback, but Her Majesty was said to have kept her cool. Instead, she replied with the ultimate comeback. According to the book, Elizabeth quipped back: 'They're better behaved than she is.' Princess Michael, who has earned a reputation of being 'Princess Pushy', has made more than her fair share of outrageous gaffes over the years. She was born into Silesian nobility as a member of the Reibnitz family, whose ancestral seat was Rybnica in current-day Poland, and married into the British Royal Family in 1978. She is alleged to have once claimed she had 'more royal blood' than any other person who had married into the Royal Family 'since Prince Philip'. According to reports, this declaration caused the late Queen to joke that Princess Michael was 'a bit too grand for us'. Princess Michael also allegedly described Princess Diana as 'that silly girl next door' and branded the Duchess of York as 'common'. In 2004, she was accused of racially insulting a group of Black patrons at a restaurant in New York by allegedly telling them to 'go back to the colonies' because they were too noisy for her liking. Princess Michael denied making the racist insult, although her spokesperson did confirm she had been angered by the noise being made at the table next to her. Before marrying Prince Michael, she was married to Thomas Troubridge, an Old Etonian banker who died in 2015. They wed in 1971, when Princess Michael was known as Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz, but the marriage did not last and they separated in 1973. It was annulled in 1978. After her divorce, Marie-Christine obtained an annulment in the hope that the Pope would allow her to marry Prince Michael in a Roman Catholic ceremony. While this was initially refused, the couple went on to tie the knot in Vienna Town Hall in 1978. However, the Pope eventually annulled the marriage, allowing them to have a Roman Catholic ceremony in 1983 at Archbishop's House near Westminster Cathedral.
