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Queen mourns 'wonderful and witty friend' Dame Jilly

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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”.

- By Allister Hagger

Queen mourns 'wonderful and witty friend' Dame Jilly

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.

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