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By Kelis Cassia Edwards Our last Queen had her Corgis, but Queen Camilla is devoted to her Medical Detection Dogs. She’s been a patron of the charity co-founded by Dr Claire Guest for a decade and this week at a reception to mark its 15th anniversary, she met dogs Spring and Bear and their owners. After a demonstration of the dogs’ detection abilities, Camilla said: “The first time I went to visit Claire at Milton Keynes, in a tiny little shed almost, it was Claire and one or two others, there were a lot of sceptics about. People thought how on earth can these dogs sniff out all these diseases…

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