Meghan Markle and Prince Harry had sat on the ground as their beloved beagle needed surgery and it was revealed by their former vet in the U.K. On December 23rd, Professor Noel Fitzpatrick recalled 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.
“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 came across 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.
“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.
