SARAH VINE: Poor Camilla...
I wailed like a child when my beloved Jack Russell died LISTEN: Sarah Vine & Andrew Pierce react to the biggest news stories every Wednesday . Available wherever you get your podcasts now By SARAH VINE FOR THE DAILY MAIL Published: 21:01 EST, 19 November 2024 | Updated: 21:01 EST, 19 November 2024 e-mail View comments Poor Queen Camilla . She's just lost her Jack Russell, Beth, who had to be put down after she was diagnosed with an incurable tumour.
Her Majesty is said to be devastated. My heart goes out to her. Jack Russells are very special little dogs.
I remember when my Jack Russell, Mars , was run over by a car while on holiday in Cornwall back in 2013. I found him by the roadside, looking from a distance almost as though he were asleep on the sofa at home, but then, up close, a tragic little thing with lifeless eyes and a dark red pool of blood under his head. Mars, my faithful companion on a thousand walks, scourge of squirrels, snuffler of sausages, no more.
Of course, if the rational part of my brain had been working it would have informed me that this was not a child or a fellow human and it was therefore only a minor tragedy. Besides, he was getting on: one way or another he would have gone to join the great squirrel hunt in the sky sooner rather than later. But there was nothing rational about it: I was utterly distraught.
I wailed like a child, utterly bereft, my own children aghast and baffled at their normally composed mother's loss .