 Anne's Royal Bull Terriers
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Dec. 31, 2003 — Florence, the royal bull terrier whose savagery last week caused the death of one of Queen Elizabeth II's beloved corgis, has since taken a bite out of a royal servant's knee, Buckingham Palace said Wednesday.
The English bull terrier, which belongs to the queen's only daughter Princess Anne, bit the maid's knee at the Sandringham Royal Estate in eastern England last Saturday, a palace spokeswoman said.
The attack came five days after Florence savaged the queen's corgi Pharos, also at Sandringham. With a rear leg broken in three places, Pharos had to be put down by a local veterinarian.
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"There was an incident at Sandringham on Saturday when a member of staff was bitten on the knee or knee area by Florence," the palace spokeswoman said, adding that the wound was a "minor bite" treated by a visiting doctor.
The hound will now undergo behavioral retraining, the spokeswoman said.
The Sun tabloid, which broke news of the latest attack in its Wednesday edition, said blood had poured from the 50-year-old maid's wound after she was bitten in a sitting room at Sandringham.
Pharos was mauled when Anne arrived at Sandringham with her canine posse on Dec. 22.
Prince Anne's other bull terrier Dotty bit two boys in a royal park in November 2002. The princess pleaded guilty to letting her dog run off a leash, making her the first British royal in modern times to have a criminal record.
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