Empress of Blandings

A Berkshire sow similar to The Empress of Blandings (but much thinner)
An 1870 drawing of a champion Berkshire sow similar to The Empress of Blandings

Empress of Blandings is a fictional pig, featured in many of the Blandings Castle novels and stories by P. G. Wodehouse. Owned by the doting Lord Emsworth, the Empress is an enormous black Berkshire sow, who wins many prizes in the "Fat Pigs" class at the local Shropshire Agricultural Show, and is the subject of many plots and schemes, generally involving her kidnap for various purposes.[1] In 2005 Hall & Woodhouse, the Dorset-based Brewers of Badger beer, named a public house in Hampshire in honour of the Empress.

  1. ^ "Empress of Blandings". Encyclopædia Britannica. 7 April 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2023.