‘May Jilly Cooper’s hereafter be filled with impossibly handsome men and devoted dogs’: Queen Camilla pays heartfelt tribute to Rivals author after her death aged 88

After the novelist’s 88 -year -old death, Dame Jilly Cooper heartedly paid tribute and wished him ‘an other life full of amazing hands and loyal dogs’.

After Dame Jilly’s family died after falling on Sunday, Camilla said that the national treasury writer greeted his writer as a ‘legend’ and ‘a wonderful humorous and compassionate friend’.

For the bestsellers such as riders and competitors, he joined more to honor the author known as the ‘Bonkbuster Queen’.

Queen and Dame Jilly, for a long time friends, last month, the author was among the guests as a literary festival full of stars last month.

Majesty said in a statement today: ‘Last night I was very sorry to learn the death of Dame Jilly.

`Very few writers become a legend in their own lives, but Jilly was one, creating a brand new type of literature and making it himself with a career that has been covering for over twenty years.

“ Personally to me and a great humorous and compassionate friend for many things – and a few weeks ago, it was a special pleasure to see him at the Queen’s reading room festival, where he was a star of the show, as usual.

“ I agree with the king of the king of the king of the king while sending our thoughts and sympathy to his entire family. And then get his impossible handsome men and self -sacrificing dogs. ‘

Famous novelist Jilly Cooper died at the age of 88 after a decline, his family announced

The couple was seen last month at the third -year Queen’s reading room event at the magnificent Home Chatsworth House in Derbyshire.

The Queen’s reading room, which was initiated by the Queen in 2023, is a charity institution that celebrates and introduced the transformative power of the books and beyond the books and beyond from an Instagram book club initiated in the locking of 2021.

It aims to encourage the accessibility and joy of stories and storytelling with its free, educational content around the books; In addition to staging the major festivals and events in the UK and on an international scale.

In a reception full of the country’s biggest literary talents, Queen Camilla greeted Dame Jilly with a kiss on her cheek while chatting about the author’s Hit Bonkbuster rivals.

Queen, former husband Andrew Parker Bowles – Cooper’s handsome Lothario Rupert Campbell -Source for Black – and his daughters Laura Lopes’in Dame Jilly’s Gloucestershire was invited to a party in the cast.

Majesty said: ‘They enjoyed your party. They love your competitors a little. Everyone enjoyed your competitors. ‘

Speaking after the queen’s reading room activity, Dame Jilly said, ‘We chatted about how much we love each other. I was very lucky. They all like it.

We’ve known each other for a long time. We live with each other.

Camilla (right) met Jilly Cooper (left), who used the Queen’s ex -husband as an iconic book of Lothario – at a royal event in Chatsworth House in Derbyshire last month

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

Dame Jilly was known for her books in Rutshire Chronicles, which includes the best showing Lothario Rupert Campbell-Black.

The news about his death on Monday morning was announced by their children Felix and Emily, who explained how they came as a ‘complete shock’ in a statement.

They said: ‘Mom was the light shining in our whole lives. His love for his entire family and friends did not know limits. His unexpected death was a complete shock.

‘We are proud of everything he gets in his life and we cannot start dreaming of life without the infectious smile and laughter around us.’

Praises from the world of literature and entertainment were flooded, the author Gyles Brandreth called Dame Jilly ‘very cute’. Bright, beautiful, funny (very funny), sexy (very sexy!), The best company, the most generous and thoughtful and gentle -hearted friend. ‘

Victoria Smurfit, who took part in the last TV adaptation of competitors, announced that Dame Jilly is a ‘Divine Queen’.

The author’s agent Felicity Blunt released a warm tribute, saying that Dame Jilly was ‘sharply observed and completely fun’.

‘The privilege of my career has been working with a woman who describes culture, writing and speaking since its first release fifty years ago.

‘Jilly will undoubtedly be remembered for the best graphic series Rutshire Chronicles and destruction and handsome flashy hero Rupert Campbell-Black.

You don’t expect the books categorized as’ Bonkbusters to stop the test of time, but Jilly wrote with sharp and insight about everything with class, gender, marriage, competition, grief and fertility.

‘The graphics were both complex and brave, rose with sharp observations and bad humor.

“ Regularly removed his own life to inspire, and there was something about the dissections of the society, many prejudices and norms.

‘But if you tried to pay him this compliment or any compliment, he would brush him aside.

‘He wrote, dedi he said, simply “to add to the sum of human happiness”. In this context, he was unrivaled as a writer. ‘

‘Emotionally intelligent, extraordinary generous, sharp observer and absolute fun Jilly Cooper, Curtis Brown and will be longing on the set of competitors.

Dame Jilly Cooper, Savoy Hotel poses with a tiger cup for a charity in 1992, while leopard printing is wearing a sweater ball

“ I lost a friend, ally, confidant and a mentor. But I know that you will live with the words he puts on the page and the screen forever. ‘

Publisher Bill Scott-Kerr said: ‘Working with Jilly Cooper for the last thirty years has become one of the great privileges and joys of my publication life.

‘As a novelist, he was always a personal hero for many other reasons.

“For his kindness and friendship, for his humor and his unspeakable enthusiasm, curiosity, courage and deep animal love.

‘Jilly may have dressed slightly, but it was a real trailblazer.

As a journalist, he went to the place where others were afraid of stepping, and as a novelist.

‘With a combination of magnificent storytelling, bad social interpretation and master, with a combination of tearing characterization, he often smashed the behavior of the British upper middle classes with the sharpest scalpels.

“ It is not an exaggeration to say that the first Rutshire Chronicle has changed the course of Rides’s popular fiction forever.

Jilly Cooper and her husband Leo. He died in 2013 in 2013.

Queen Camilla and Dame Jilly Cooper are seen in a celebration of Camilla’s 75th birthday in London in July 2022

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

‘The definition of Ribald, Rollicking and good entertainment, CT and 10 Rutshire novels was to explain how it was a generation of women, writer and otherwise, giving us a character to define a generation and beyond.’

The authority added: ‘We will mourn a broadcasting world without a new Jilly Cooper novel on the horizon, a Crabber, a less spectacular place and a groundbreaking talent and a real friend.’

According to the agent, Dame Jilly’s funeral will be special for its requests.

In the coming months, a public service of Şükran Day at Southwark Cathedral will be held to celebrate his life and a separate announcement will be made in the necessary courses.

Ms. Smurfit, who played Maud O’hara in its opponents, shared a fluttering of Dame Jilly on Instagram.

He said in the title: ‘Our divine queen went to the sky. He will live his words forever, but when the human is the sunlight in his company, the way you make you feel. Jilly was everything that was good about being human.

Paddington, a naughty sparkle. Love for all beautiful and loving family and friends. #Jilly #rivals #rip will miss that Dame very much. ‘

Jilly Cooper was depicted at home in Putney on December 1, 1978

Dame Jilly made a Kameo view in the Disney+ adaptation of novel rivals

In 1937, Hornchhurch grew up in Dame Jilly Yorkshire, born in Essex, and went to the Private Godolphin School in Salisbury.

His father was a brigadier and his family moved to London in the 1950s, and at the age of 20, he became a reporter at Middlesex Independent.

Dame Jilly was a newspaper columnist who wrote about marriage, sex and housework for Sunday Times in the 1960s.

He began writing novels in the 1970s, but in 1985 he did not break up to the riders.

His work was adapted at various points, including an ITV series, jealous of his husbands Coronation Street star Stephen Billington and Downton Abbey player Hugh Bonneville, and Marcus Gilbert took part in a Riders series in the 1990s.

In 2019, the Opening Comedy Women won the Print Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2024, he became a Dame for his services to literature and charity.

A new book of Dame Jilly is expected to be published in November through Transworld.

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