Britain’s oldest and most famous pet refuge centre, Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, played host to Her Majesty The Queen on Tuesday, as she opened the Mary Tealby Kennels
The Queen, who has been the Patron of Battersea since 1956, met up with the home’s resident vets, nurses, groomers and trainers as well as actress Amanda Holden, TV’s Paul O’Grady and model David Gandy – and a 12-year-old Corgi named Beama, who she declined to take home to the palace in response to a cheeky suggestion by Holden.
Every brick, window, door fitting and fixture of the £4.8m development’s 56 new kennels, which will shelter 6,000 animals every year, has been bought using donations.
IoD member and former Director cover star Claire Horton called it “The most important day for a quarter of a century for Battersea.”
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