The Windsor Lady (The Queen & her Corgis) is one of the four memorials to The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012. That jubilee was celebrated in Windsor with street parties and a walkabout from the Castle to the Guildhall.
The Windsor Lady was a gift from a Maidenhead sculptor, Lydia Karpinska, who works in bronze in the figurative tradition. The statue depicts The late Queen somewhat informally dressed and surrounded by six Corgis.
The Welsh Corgi came originally from the hilly counties of Pembrokeshire and Cardiganshire. Once described as ‘an odd little animal with a face like a fox, a rump like a guinea-pig, and front legs which are always short and usually somewhat bowed’, the Corgi was not recognised by the Kennel Club as a breed of championship status until 1928.
Most people had never heard of Corgis until 1933 when they saw a photograph of seven-year-old Princess Elizabeth holding a Corgi puppy at Glamis Castle.
The Queen had many Corgis and also the cross breed, Dorgies. In her last years she had two Corgis and they were brought out into the Quadrangle on the day of her funeral in 2022.
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