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Queen reflects on reading 'forbidden' Lady Chatterley's Lover under the pillow

Queen Camilla says reading has been most of her education and recalls how 10 minutes a day can cut stress by 20%, according to researchers.

  • Queen Camilla discusses the transformative power of literature in the upcoming BBC documentary 'The Book That Changed My Life,' airing Wednesday, October 14.
  • Camilla credits her passion for reading to her father, Major Bruce Shand, who used literature to survive more than two years as a prisoner of war in Germany during the 1940s.
  • Revealing the King's reading habits, Camilla noted that King Charles enjoys biographies and occasionally 'roars' with laughter while reading P.G. Wodehouse before dinner.
  • The programme features four individuals who overcame personal challenges through reading, demonstrating why Camilla considers it 'like the best tonic in the world.'
  • Data shows youth interest in books in Britain hit a 20-year low last year, prompting the National Literacy Trust to partner with the Queen's Reading Room to boost engagement.
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King's laugh, Queen's tears during royal reading time

Queen Camilla has told a documentary encouraging reading for pleasure that she and King Charles read together before dinner every evening.

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Queen Camilla reported, in the BBC documentary "The Book That Changed My Life", how she read in secret, in her teens, in the 1960s, the passionate and controversial novel "Lady Chatterley's lover, by D.H. Lawrence. E also claimed that she and King Charles read before dinner.

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The queen reveals the predilection for the novel by D.H. Lawrence who made scandal in an interview with the Bbc. The other literary passion is "Tale of two cities" by Dickens. The initiatives of the sovereign to promote reading

·Rome, Italy
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Yorkshire Post broke the news in Leeds, United Kingdom on Friday, October 9, 2026.
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