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Camilla 'inspires' new crime novel
Western Daily Press
|October 13, 2025
AUTHOR Peter James has said the Queen inspired him to set his new crime novel at Buckingham Palace and give her a starring role.
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The writer, 77, who is one of Camilla's favourite authors, has depicted the Queen in his latest Detective Superintendent Roy Grace thriller with the plot centring around a race to stop a killer at Buckingham Palace.
The author revealed to BBC Radio Sussex that the idea for the storyline came after the Queen wrote to him.
He said: "She wrote to me and she said, 'when are you going to set a Roy Grace novel in London?'
"I thought, well things have not ended well for people who've disappeared past Queens of England.
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