After almost 70-years of breeding and owning dozens of corgi dogs, it was with a heavy heart three years ago, that the Queen announced her current pets would be her last.

Concerned over the demands of having puppies around the Palace again, the 90-year-old monarch accepted it would not be sensible to expand her present pack of three.

But now in a kind hearted gesture, intended to help out a late friend, Her Majesty is understood to be considering taking on two more dogs.

In a remarkable role-reversal the Queen has spent the last two years quietly acting as dog walker for her former gamekeeper, Bill Fenwick, 95, whose late wife Nancy, was known as the Keeper of the Corgis.

Mr Fenwick's death a week ago has now left the Queen considering whether to take on his own corgi and Bichon Frise, of which she is immensely found.

Mr Fenick, who was considered to be the country's leading expert on mole-catching, began working for the Queen at Sandringham more than 30-years ago.

As a result Her Majesty got to know his wife, Nancy very well and the pair became close friends.

In the 1980s Mrs Fenwick agreed to take on the role of training and looking after the royal dogs.