Every up and down, every joy and heartbreak of Queen Camilla’s life has played out like the storyline of a best-selling novel.
It’s fitting, then, that books have been her comfort. Reading, Her Majesty has explained, has often been her salvation. “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.” The feeling of warmth and comfort that reading provides spurred her on in January 2021 to set up what is now called The Queen’s Reading Room.
Regularly recommending new reads, the initiative is, in Queen Camilla’s own words, “a resource, a reassurance and a refuge to all book lovers”.
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