Tributes pour in for author Jilly Cooper

The UK’s Queen Camilla on Monday led tributes to British author Jilly Cooper, known for her unapologetically raunchy romance novels, who died at the age of 88 following a fall.

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A former journalist, Cooper penned the bestselling series of romantic novels known as The Rutshire Chronicles, which included Rivals, recently adapted for television by Disney+.

Cooper’s publishing house, Curtis Brown, said in a statement that the writer had died “on Sunday morning, after a fall”.

“I was so saddened to learn of Dame Jilly’s death last night,” Camilla wrote in a message.

“She was a wonderfully witty and compassionate friend,” the queen added, praising the writer as a “legend” in her “own lifetime... creating a whole new genre of literature”.