List of Queen Victoria's pets
Wednesday 18 May 1836
Dear Uncle Ernest made me the present of a most delightful Lory, which is so tame, that it remains on your hand, & you may put your finger into its beak, or do any thing with it without its ever attempting to bite. It is larger than Mamma's Grey Parrot, & has a most beautiful plumage; it is scarlet, blue, brown, yellow & purple.
Queen Victoria's journal (18 May 1836)
Queen Victoria and her close family kept numerous pet animals, including:
- Alma – a possible Thoroughbred[2]
- Bess – a dog[3]
- Coco – an African grey parrot[4][5][6]
- Dandie – a Skye Terrier[7]
- Dash – a King Charles Spaniel[1]
- Dot – a dog[3]
- Eos – a greyhound which Prince Albert brought from Germany[1]
- Fern – a dog[3]
- Flora – a Highland pony
- Fly – a dog[3]
- Goats – Mohammad Shah Qajar, the Shah of Persia, presented Queen Victoria with a pair of Tibetan goats upon her accession to the throne. From these, a royal goat herd was established at Windsor. Goats from this herd were then used as regimental mascots by regiments such as the Royal Welch Fusiliers.
- Hector – a deerhound[1]
- Islay – a Skye terrier.[8] Victoria owned Islay for five years and he died from unknown previously survived a bite from a cat
- Jacquot – a donkey
- Looty – a Pekingese dog taken from the Old Summer Palace during the Second Opium War[9]
- Marco – a small spitz which was the first of her many Pomeranians.[10]
- Minnie – a dog[3]
- Nero – a greyhound[1]
- Nip – a dog[3]
- Noble – the Queen's favourite collie.[11] A statue by Princess Louise is in Osborne House.[12]
- Picco – a Sardinian pony
- Roy – a dog[3]
- Sally – a dog[3]
- Sharp – a collie[13][14]
- Slip – a dog[3]
- Spot – a dog[3]
- Teazer – a dog[3]
- Turi – a Pomeranian who lay on her deathbed at her request [15]
- Wat – a dog[3]
- White Heather – mention a black and white or as a fully white Persian cat that owned by the Queen,[16] and inherited by her son King Edward VII after her death but has little infomation outside from books and non historic teaching sources or even rscpa[17]
- lory – could be a eclectus species or a type of Loriini bird[1]
See also
- Royal corgis
- Horses of Elizabeth II
- Caesar - King Edward VII's pet
- Canadian Parliamentary Cats
- Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office, United Kingdom
- Tibs the Great
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Explore the Royal Collection online". www.rct.uk. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
- ^ "Leonida Caldesi (1823-91) - 'The Queen's favourite Horse, "Alma"'". www.rct.uk. Retrieved 12 October 2025.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l The Royal Family [@theroyalfamily]; (26 August 2025). "Happy National Dog Day!". Retrieved 26 August 2025 – via Instagram.
- ^ Alderton, David (5 April 2002). "David Alderton on the joy of parrots". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
- ^ Goldstein, Jack (2014). 101 Amazing Facts about Queen Victoria. Andrews UK Limited. ISBN 9781783338146.
- ^ "MASTERPIECE | What's Fact, What's Fiction in Victoria Season 2 Episode 7". Masterpiece. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
- ^ "RCIN 2083082 - Dandie Dinmont, Dankel and Cowley the Jager". albert.rct.uk. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
- ^ ""Islay" Signed and dated 1841".
- ^ William Bambridge (1865), Looty the Pekingese 1865, Royal Collection Trust
- ^ Joe Stahlkuppe (2000), Pomeranians, p. 5, ISBN 9780764110467
- ^ "Noble, Queen Victoria's dog".
- ^ Jan Toms (2008), Animal Graves and Memorials, Osprey Publishing, p. 39, ISBN 9780747806431
- ^ Anonymous (1890s). True Stories of Bird and Beast (1st ed.). Glasgow: Blackie and Son.
- ^ Presberg, Carole. "Queen Victoria's Border Collies". The Border Collie Museum. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
- ^ "Unknown Person - Queen Victoria with Turi in her carriage". www.rct.uk. Retrieved 12 October 2025.
- ^ Torrey, Edwin Fuller (30 November 2021). "5: The Rise of Cats and Madness: III. The Nineteenth Century (5.2. Nineteenth-Century Cats)". Parasites, Pussycats and Psychosis: The Unknown Dangers of Human Toxoplasmosis. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. p. 72. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-86811-6_5. ISBN 978-3-030-86811-6. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
- ^ Fletcher, Joann (27 October 2023). "CATS: from Pharaohs' felines to Fairy Cat Mother & the Egyptologist!". Immortal Egypt. Retrieved 18 October 2024.