The Queen's animal companions

You've seen it – 900 million other people have seen it – the part of the opening ceremonies for the 2012 Olympics in which 007 Is upstaged by the Queen's Corgis at Buckingham Palace.

From the age of seven until the day she died, the Queen had Corgis

Michael Joseph Gross, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, is writing a book about the Queen and her Corgis. He said her very first Corgi was named Dookie.