Camilla’s romantic streak! The Queen ‘loves a crime thriller and romance novels’ and has ‘covered every surface of her sitting room with books’, charity boss reveals
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Queen Camilla ‘loves a crime thriller and romance novels’ and has ‘covered every surface of her sitting room with books’, a charity boss has revealed.
Vicki Perrin – who is the director of the Queen’s Royal Reading Room charity – has described the newly-crowned Queen as the ‘most well-read person’ she has ever met.
Speaking to Ok!, Vicki explained how the Queen’s personal sitting room conveys just how much she enjoys immersing herself in novels.
She explained: ‘She’ll be sitting in her armchair and has piles upon piles of books surrounding her with more stacked high on every single table.
‘Every surface that you can see is covered in books, even the floor has been taken over!’
Queen Camilla, 75, is interested in a ‘wide-ranging’ genre of books, according to Vicki Perrin – who is the director of the Queen’s Royal Reading Room charity
The charity boss also highlighted how Queen Camilla is interested in a ‘wide-ranging’ genre of books.
The insider added: ‘She loves a good crime thriller as much as she loves a romance as much as she loves the classics.’
Although Vicki didn’t specify which romance novels Camilla has been enjoying lately, Love in the Time of Cholera, Suite Francaise and Mrs Harris Goes to Paris currently appear on her list of favourite books on the Royal Reading Room website.
Other classics chosen by Camilla include Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
What’s more, the proud mother also includes her son Tom Parker Bowles’ 2007 food guide ‘The Year of Eating Dangerously’.
Later this month, Dame Judi Dench, Gyles Brandreth and David Harewood will be among the speakers who will appear at The Queen’s Reading Room Festival at Hampton Court Palace.
First launched in January 2021, the Royal Reading Room was inspired by the success of the then Duchess of Cornwall’s reading lists shared during the pandemic in 2020.
Now operating as an online literary hub, it offers book recommendations and exclusive insight from the authors themselves.
Vicki (pictured centre) speaks with Queen Camilla and novelist Sebastian Faulks at a Royal Reading Room event in October 2022
Since joining the Royal Family with her wedding to Prince Charles in 2005, Camilla has made the issue of literacy – particularly among children – central to her work and is patron of seven charities including the National Literacy Trust and First Story.
Camilla, who has previously described herself as a ‘voracious’ reader, said in 2020: ‘There is no friend as loyal as a book’ – a quote from US author Ernest Hemingway.
Through the National Literacy Trust, the Reading Room has linked up with libraries across the UK to ensure the featured titles are available free for as many people as possible.
Speaking to Vogue last year, Camilla revealed she also shares her passion for reading with King Charles.
She explained: ‘When we go away, the nicest thing is that we actually sit and read our books in different corners of the same room.
‘It’s very relaxing because you know you don’t have to make conversation. You just sit and be together.’
Comedy group Austentatious (pictured 2019) will don period costume to improvise a play based on a fictional Austen title dreamt up by Camilla
At her inaugural literary festival later this month, comedy group Austentatious will don period costume to improvise a play based on a fictional Austen title dreamt up by Camilla.
Organisers promise the event will be ‘a literary festival like no other’ – and will break from the stuffy convention of ‘authors plugging their own books’. The Queen has been ‘hands on’ in organising the day-long extravaganza on June 11.
The festival will also honour the life and work of Wolf Hall novelist Dame Hilary Mantel.
It is hoped the festival will become one of Camilla’s ‘legacy’ projects by inspiring more people to take up reading.
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