Meghan Markle and Prince Harry 'Sat on the Floor' When Their Dog Had an Operation, Vet Reveals
- - Meghan Markle and Prince Harry 'Sat on the Floor' When Their Dog Had an Operation, Vet Reveals
Janine HenniDecember 24, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Meghan Markle, Prince Harry and Guy in a photo she shared to Instagram in January 2025 -
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's former vet opened up about what it was like to work with them
Professor Noel Fitzpatrick operated on a beagle named Guy after the dog got hurt in 2017
Fitzpatrick also revealed that the dog-loving Queen Elizabeth "had a million questions" for him when they met at Buckingham Palace in 2016
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry sat on the ground when their beloved beagle needed surgery, their former vet in the U.K. said.
On Dec. 23, Professor Noel Fitzpatrick recounted his experience treating one of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's dogs in a new interview with The Times.
Fitzpatrick, a renowned orthopedic-neuro veterinary surgeon and star of The Supervet: Noel Fitzpatrick on Channel 4 in the U.K., operated on Meghan's beagle Guy in 2017 after the dog was hurt.
"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]. Would I operate? I agreed, and she brought him over," Fitzpatrick told the outlet.
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"The duke and duchess sat on the floor. We had cake. Guy was fixed," Fitzpatrick continued. "He lived until January this year, and I had a wonderful note of gratitude from Meghan, which was sweet."
Guy was Meghan's beagle that she adopted in 2015, before she met Prince Harry. Meghan announced Guy's death in an emotional Instagram tribute in January of this year and recapped how Fitzpatrick's care changed Guy's fate.
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Guy and Prince Harry in Meghan Markle's January 2015 Instagram tribute.
"He endured a terrible accident shortly before I moved to the U.K., 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," the Duchess of Sussex wrote in her post. "H and I would drive late at night, after hours, to see Guy as he recovered in Surrey for months on end," she continued, calling Prince Harry by her nickname for him, "H."
"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," she added.
Meghan's tribute post to Guy included many personal photos, including a shot of her and Harry sitting on the ground with the dog at what looked like a hospital and Harry cuddling up to Guy when the beagle had on a bandage and leg cast.
Fitzpatrick's experience with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex wasn't the only one he recapped in conversation with The Times, as he also spoke about meeting the late Queen Elizabeth for lunch at Buckingham Palace.
"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," the veterinary surgeon told the outlet.
"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," he said.
Prince Harry's grandmother was a dog lover who owned dozens of corgis during her lifetime and is even credited with inventing the dorgi breed, or dachshund-corgi mix.
According to a Facebook post from The Supervet, Fitzpatrick was invited to have lunch at Buckingham Palace with Queen Elizabeth in May 2016 — and he had a lot to ask her, too.
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Queen Elizabeth with a corgi in the salon at Sandringham House.
"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," he told the outlet.
"She said, 'To me, it’s much like the corgis. They all bark all the time. You just which bark to listen to.' "
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