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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 longstanding friend a “hereafter filled with impossibly handsome men and devoted dogs”.

- By Allister Hagger

Queen mourns 'wonderful and witty friend' Dame Jilly

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 best-known creation, lothario Rupert Campbell-Black, on the Queen’s ex-husband 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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