Marco and Turi, Queen Victoria’s favourites.

It was springtime in 1888. Queen Victoria 1) ___ (VISIT) Florence, Italy … and she fell in love. She 2) ___ (SWEEP) off her feet by a beautiful male with auburn hair. However, this was no man, for no man 3) ___ (CAN) replace her dearest Albert. The cute little nose and big intelligent eyes of the dog stole her heart. The VolpinoItaliano is a Spitz breed, which along with other Spitz-type dogs, are today generically referred to as Pomeranians—named for the Pomerania region in Central Europe. In Pomeranians, the Queen 4) ___ (FIND) the new love of her life and 5) ___ (INTRODUCE) four new members to the Royal household—Marco, named after the Italian merchant traveller Marco Polo, Gina, a white female, and two others. Queen Victoria 6) ___ (HAVE) such a powerful influence on popular culture that Pomeranians soon became one of the most fashionable toy breeds—especially the smaller, red-coated ones like Marco. Queen Victoria had at one time 35 Pomeranians in the royal kennels. In 1891, she 7) ___(SHOW) six of the dogs at the opening of Cruft’s—now the world’s largest international dog show. 10 years later, on her dying day, the Queen requested that her beloved Pomeranian, Turi, 8) ___ (BRING) to her bedside. At half-past six in the evening, Tuesday, 22 January 1901, at the age of 81, Queen Victoria died at Osbourne House, her faithful little white Pomeranian, Turi, by her side to the last.

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WAS VISITING, WAS SWEPT, COULD, HAD FOUND, INRODUCED, HAD, SHOWED, BE BROUGHT

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