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Queen mourns 'wonderful and witty friend' Dame Jilly
Daily Express
|October 07, 2025
THE Queen led tributes to Dame Jilly Cooper, wishing her long- standing friend a “hereafter filled with impossibly handsome men and devoted dogs”.
Close...Camilla and Jilly in March
Camilla called her “a legend” as it was announced yesterday that the author had died on Sunday aged 88 after a fall.
The friendship between the pair went back decades, with the Riders novelist partly basing her bestknown creation, lothario Rupert Campbell-Black, on the Queen’s exhusband Andrew Parker Bowles.
In a rare message released by Buckingham Palace in memory of the “queen of the bonkbusters”, Camilla said: “I was so saddened to learn of Dame Jilly’s death.
This story is from the October 07, 2025 edition of Daily Express.
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