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TIL Queen Victoria had a Pekingese named Looty. Looty was stolen by Captain John Hart Dunne during the looting of Old Summer Palace near Beijing in 1890. He gifted her to Queen Victoria who named her Looty in reference to how she was acquired. Looty may have been the first Pekingese in England.

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