Rivals? Awkward moment Queen Camilla met bonkbuster author Jilly Cooper – who based book’s lothario on her ex

His ex-husband was an inspiration for Dame Jilly Cooper’s iconic Lothari Rupert Campbell-Black.

So some may have wondered what would happen when the queen met the author at a royal event yesterday.

But Camilla is actually a big fan of Bonkbuster books – and even apparently, the lusty Disney TV series of novel rivals.

Majesty greeted Dame Jilly with a warm kiss on every cheek, at a reception full of the country’s biggest literary talents to mark the Third -Year -Year Queen’s Reading Room Literature Festival.

The author said that his ex-husband Andrew Parker Bowles-Writer’s handsome Lothario Rupert Campbell-Black (played by actor Alex Hassell), and his daughter Laura Lopes was excited to be invited to a party in the Gloucestershire house at the beginning of this year.

They enjoyed your party. They love your competitors a little. Everyone enjoyed your opponents, ” the queen said with a smile.

Later, Dame Jilly said: ‘We chatted about how much we love each other.

I was very lucky. They all like it. Even he. We’ve known each other for a long time. We live with each other.

The author’s character Rupert Campbell-Black was reportedly inspired by Andrew Parker Bowles (above)

Alex Hassell (above) plays the character on the screen in the sensual series of novel rivals

Andrew is a great man. Majesty and Andrew still continue very well. They are still very fond of each other wonderful friends. ‘

The Queen’s Reading Room Festival lived at the Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, one of the best magnificent houses in the country.

The Queen’s reading room is a charity organization that celebrates and encourages the transformative power of the books and beyond.

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