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Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Did You Know?
- The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel is AKC's 140th breed.
- The Cavalier became fully recognized by the AKC in January 1996.
- The Cavalier was featured on the hit HBO series, "Sex and the City",
as Charlotte York's dog.
- The Cavalier was a favorite of King Charles I of Britain (the breed's
namesake).
- When the house of Stuart fell, it became a political liability to be
associated with the dogs of King Charles (the Tudors favored the Pug), and
the Cavalier breed became extremely rare.
- Queen Victoria brought back the breed, but the Cavalier had changed radically
from its original form; the original version of the breed had all but disappeared.
- In 1928, the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Club was founded in England
in attempts to support a revival of the "Old Type", and since
then, the dog has grown to become one of the most popular breeds in Great
Britain.
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