There is only one sure way for Queen Elizabeth to “shut up” her corgis.

For decades, Queen Elizabeth's beloved corgi has been a constant delight to have by her side and a symbol of the British monarch. With an adorable face and wagging tail, the queen's faithful companion has provided her with comfort, companionship, and no small amount of mischief (with an emphasis on mischief) over the years. Stories abound of staff and visitors encountering misbehaving corgis, and Craig Brown's book Q: A Voyage Around The Queen describes a particularly useful trick Her Majesty used to get the dogs to behave.

In a chapter detailing the late queen's relationship with her four-legged friend, Brown recounts numerous wild stories about her corgi and other family packs of dogs, including the legendary tale of Princess Anne's dog biting two children in Windsor, leaving a criminal record.

But when it came to her own corgi and dolgis (a dachshund/corgi mix), it turns out that Queen Elizabeth was up to some truly royal tricks. As it happens, “the way to get rid of a belligerent corgi is the same as it is for a belligerent human.

While it would be tempting to go back in time and ask how they kept bagpipes “on hand,” the royal biographer goes on to quote Jim Motherwell, who served as Queen Elizabeth's official piper in the late 1990s. Motherwell told author Penny Juner, “The pitch of the pipe seems to hurt most dogs' ears.”

At the very sound of Scotland, the author notes, “most corgis will stop whatever they are doing and slink away, as if in distress.” Owners of misbehaving dogs should take note.

Brown also shared a story about how former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown once visited Balmoral with his family and what his children thought of the famous dogs. The Queen, the author wrote, “was surrounded by corgis, and when the Queen told one of her dogs to ‘shut up,’ the boys were delighted and shocked at the same time.”

Q: A Voyage Around The Queen shares that several people have been bitten by the queen's corgis over the years, describing the dogs as “an unpredictable and capricious bunch, at times adorable, at times psycho, the Corleone of the dog world.”

Their antics may have been legendary, but in his book, Brown delves into why corgis were so important to the queen, noting that the queen's dogs had “a rebellious streak that Elizabeth II would never have had. The clamor of the dogs was the queen's refuge, and the indifference of the dogs was her consolation."

The book also notes that ”the queen's dogs were not only the queen's companions, but also the queen's companions.

In a strictly regimented world, Elizabeth loved a little chaos and found that her last two beloved corgis, Sandy and Muick, stayed with her to the end.