Queen Camilla's passion for literature is well-known as she has often explained the solace that reading has given her during challenging times.
She has said: “If you learn to read, however difficult your life is at the time, you can pick up a book and you can escape. You can laugh, you can cry, it just takes you out of the real world and it gives you a different dimension to life.” This drive to highlight the importance of books has seen her support charities such as Coram Beanstalk and First Story, as well as launch the Queen's Reading Room Charity in 2020 - which is, in Queen Camilla’s own words, “a resource, a reassurance and a refuge to all book lovers”.
As National Book Lovers Day in celebrated today (Wednesday, August 9), why is Queen Camilla's work so important and how does it tie in so neatly with the Princess of Wales' own passions for early childhood?
Speaking to OK! about the Queen's literary crusade, former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond explains why her work is proving to be invaluable.
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