“Hey, doesn’t this look like the prince’s dog?”
Two young women got the shock of their lives when they discovered a lost dog while out walking and called the phone number on its collar, only to discover the dog belonged to none other than Prince Carl Philip of Sweden and his family.
The dog, Siri, who lives with the Prince, his wife Princess Sofia and their children, is known for escaping the palace, with an escape in 2018 ending with Siri being found by police.
This time, it was a pair of young women who found the pooch while walking around Stockholm, and they thought to call the phone number on the dog’s collar. When nobody picked up, they tried the police animal unit, but after waiting “a long time”, they still hadn’t received a response.
At this point, one of the girls joked that the dog looked like the Prince’s pup, at which point they searched Google for photos of Siri and realised they were in the presence of royalty.
"I searched Google and came up with an article about the prince's dog having escaped in the past. I saw the picture of the dog and fell to my knees — I couldn't stop laughing because it was so hilarious," Angelina Berge, who posted a video to Tiktok about the incident, said. "We started talking to the dog and said her name: 'Siri, Siri'. She was super happy. Then we realised it was probably the prince's dog."
They carried Siri to the royal couple’s residence Villa Solbacken, as they said her legs were “a bit tired”. Understandable after fleeing a palace and wandering around Stockholm!
When they arrived, they were greeted by a grief-stricken Prince Carl Philip. "We rang the doorbell of the prince and princess' house," Berge said. "Prince Carl Philip came down with his son and picked up the dog. He was so very nice and kind and thanked us again and again."
Berge said of the interlude, "We were both kind of shocked and thought. 'What are the odds of this happening to us?'"
Considering how often Siri seems to escape, the odds might be better than you think!
Image: Tiktok