Camilla’s romantic streak! The Queen ‘loves thrillers and romance’ and has ‘covered every surface of her living room with books’, charity head reveals
Queen Camilla “loves thrillers and romance” and has “covered every surface of her living room with books,” a charity chief revealed.
Vicki Perrin, director of the Queen’s Royal Reading Room charity, has described Camilla as the “most cultured person” she has ever met.
Speaking to Ok!, Ms Perrin explained how the Queen’s personal living room gives an idea of how much she enjoys immersing herself in novels.
She explained: ‘She’ll be sitting in her easy chair and she has stacks and stacks of books surrounding her with more stacked on each table.
‘Every surface you can see is covered in books, even the ground has been occupied!’
Queen Camilla, 75, is interested in a “broad” genre of books, according to Vicki Perrin, director of the Queen’s Royal Reading Room charity.
The head of the charity also highlighted how Queen Camilla is interested in a “broad” genre of books.
She added: “She loves a good police thriller as much as she loves a romance, as much as she loves the classics.”
Although Perrin wouldn’t specify which romance novels Camilla has been enjoying lately, Love in the Time of Cholera, French Suite and Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris currently appear on her list of favorite books on the Royal Reading Room website.
Other classics chosen by Camilla include Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
The proud mom 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 appearing 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 functioning as an online literary hub, it offers book recommendations and exclusive insights from the authors themselves.
Vicki Perrin (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 literacy, particularly among children, at the center of her work and is a patron of seven charities, including the National Literacy Trust. and First Story.
Camilla, who previously described herself as a “voracious” reader, said in 2020: “There is no friend as loyal as a book,” a quote from American author Ernest Hemingway.
Through the National Literacy Trust, the Reading Room has connected with libraries across the UK to ensure outstanding titles are freely available to as many people as possible.
Speaking to Vogue last year, Camilla revealed that she also shares her passion for reading with King Charles.
She explained: ‘When we leave, it’s best that we sit and read our books in different corners of the same room.
‘It’s very relaxing because you know you don’t have to start a conversation. Just sit down and be together.
Comedy troupe Austentatious (pictured in 2019) will don period costume to improvise a play based on a fictional Austen title devised by Camilla
At their inaugural literary festival later this month, the Austentatious comedy troupe will don period costumes to improvise a play based on a fictional Austen title devised by Camilla.
The organizers promise that the event will be ‘a literary festival like no other’ and will break with the stifling convention of ‘authors publishing their own books’. The Queen has been ‘hands on’ in organizing the day-long show on June 11.
The festival will also honor the life and work of Wolf Hall novelist Dame Hilary Mantel.
The festival is expected to become one of Camilla’s ‘legacy’ projects by inspiring more people to start reading.
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