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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...the-queen-still-has-her-budgerigars-06gfskpw8
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Cloistered away at Windsor Castle, unable to see her family, kept away from her friends and deprived - most importantly - of the freedom to go out riding, the Queen is discovering along with the rest of the country the challenges posed by social isolation.
But it is possible that she has been able to find one diversion to help relieve the tedium: her budgerigars.
The Queen’s love of animals — in particular, her horses and her dogs — is well known. Much has even been written about her homing pigeons.
Her Majesty’s budgerigars are, however, one of the least well-documented of the Queen’s interests. And, living as they do in an aviary close to the Queen’s private apartments at Windsor Castle,
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