Meghan Markle and Prince Harry "sat on the floor" while their dog had vital surgery after a "terrible accident", their former vet has revealed.
The vet was needed after Meghan’s beagle, named Guy, was injured in 2017.
Professor Noel Fitzpatrick recalled his experience dealing with the duke and duchess as he had to treat the Beagle in a new interview.
Professor Fitzpatrick revealed: "Meghan rang me from Canada, where she was living at the time, to say Guy, her beagle, had escaped and had been found with two busted 'wrists' [the carpus].
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry sat on the floor as Professor Fitzpatrick operated on their dog, the vet has revealed
|"Would I operate? I agreed, and she brought him over.
"The duke and duchess sat on the floor.
"We had cake. Guy was fixed.
"He lived until January this year, and I had a wonderful note of gratitude from Meghan, which was sweet."
Meghan adopted Guy in 2015, before she met Harry.
Following her beloved dog's death earlier this year, she paid tribute to him on social media, saying: "In 2015, I adopted a beagle from a dog rescue in Canada. He had been at a kill shelter in Kentucky and given a few days to live. I swooped him up....and fell in love.
"They referred to him as ‘the little guy’ because he was so small and frail, so I named him ‘Guy’. And he was the best guy any girl could have asked for.
"If you followed me on Instagram back in the day, you saw a lot of him. He was with me at Suits, when I got engaged, when I became a mum...he was with me for everything: the quiet, the chaos, the calm, the comfort."
Guy had to undergo multiple surgeries after his "terrible accident"
|In the post, she revealed the help that Professor Fitzpatrick gave Guy, saying: "He endured a terrible accident shortly before I moved to the UK, which had him undergoing surgeries for several months and unable to leave the clinic.
"Doctors said he would never walk again, but Dr. Noel Fitzpatrick said he could do it.
"H and I would drive late at night, after hours, to see Guy as he recovered in Surrey for months on end.
"I will always be grateful to Noel and his team, the team at Queen West Animal Hospital in TO, our vets now, and my friends and community: Thank you for loving him so."
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Professor Fitzpatrick revealed he had a conversation over lunch with Queen Elizabeth
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Professor Fitzpatrick went on to reveal he once had lunch with Queen Elizabeth.
He said: "She said all kinds of things which I will never speak about, but yes, we chatted for an hour and a half.
"She was interested in what’s called a dermal integration module used in animal prosthetics [a medical device that helps skin integrate with an implant] because it’s like an antler growing out of a deer.
"She wanted to know how the skin grew into metal.
"She was also interested in what time of day she should give tablets to her dogs, and we discussed hip dysplasia. She had a million questions.
"I also had a million questions for her because I was interested to know, with all the shenanigans in politics, and with politicians changing all the time, but her being a constant, how she coped with the vicissitudes of politics.
"She said, 'To me, it’s much like the corgis. They all bark all the time. You just need to know which bark to listen to’." he told The Times.
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