Prince Harry Rumors: Prince Charles to Give Him a Chocolate-Colored Labrador as Birthday Gift?

Prince Harry Rumors: Prince Charles to Give Him a Chocolate-Colored Labrador as Birthday Gift?
Prince Harry pats a dog as he meets members of the public outside Valpariso Firestation on June 28, 2014 in Valpariso, Chile. Firefighters from Valpariso were involved in dealing with the devastating forest fires that hit the area in April. Prince Harry is on a three day tour of Chile after visiting Brazil. (hris Jackson-Pool/Getty Images)
Zachary Stieber
10/16/2014
Updated:
7/18/2015

Prince Charles may give Prince Harry a dog, according to the latest rumors.

Most of the royal family has dogs. Queen Elizabeth has a corgis, Charles has a Jack Russells, and Prince William and Kate Middleton have a cocker spaniel.

Charles, though, has refrained from owning a dog despite being public with his love of them.

“Recently there has been chatter at court that Prince Charles was going to give Harry a Labrador, specifically a chocolate colored one, for his 30th birthday,” reported the Daily Express.

But there’s been no signs of the gift and a Palace spokesman denied that it was going to happen.

Still, there’s hope for the future, according to biographer Penny Junor. 

Prince Harry holds an eight week old puppy called Veyron during a visit to the charity Canine Partners Training Centre on July 13, 2010 in Midhurst, United Kingdom. (Kirsty Wigglesworth/WPA Pool/Getty Images)
Prince Harry holds an eight week old puppy called Veyron during a visit to the charity Canine Partners Training Centre on July 13, 2010 in Midhurst, United Kingdom. (Kirsty Wigglesworth/WPA Pool/Getty Images)

 

“He loves dogs, but I suspect the reason he doesn’t have one is because his life is too peripatetic. I don’t know why he didn’t have one when he was a child, maybe because there were too many in the house already. His father had the Jack Russells and William had a Labrador (which he gave to the Van Cutsems when he went to university),” he said.

“It was only when William was settled in Anglesey that they got their dog, and I would guess Harry will wait until his circumstances make it practical to have one.”

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