Queen Camilla ‘loves romance novels and has covered every surface of her sitting room with books’

Queen Camilla “loves a crime thriller and romance novels” and has “covered every surface of her sitting room with books,” a charity boss has revealed.

Vicki Perrin – who is the director of the Queen’s Royal Reading Room charity – has described the newly crowned Queen as the ‘most well-read person’ she has ever met.

Speak against OK!Vicki explained how the Queen’s personal sitting room shows how much she enjoys immersing herself in novels.

She explained, “She’ll sit in her armchair and have piles upon piles of books around her and more on every table.”

“Every surface you can see is littered with books, even the floor has been taken over!”

The charity boss also highlighted how Queen Camilla is interested in an “extensive” genre of books.

The insider added: “She loves a good crime thriller as much as she loves a romance, just as much as she loves the classics.”

While Vicki did not specify which novels Camilla has been enjoying lately, Love in the Time of Cholera, Suite Francaise and Mrs Harris Goes to Paris are currently on her list of favorite books on the Royal Reading Room’s website.

Other classics chosen by Camilla are Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Dracula by Bram Stoker.

Plus, the proud mom also credits her son Tom Parker Bowles’ 2007 food guide “The Year of Eating Dangerously.”

Later this month, Dame Judi Dench, Gyles Brandreth and David Harewood are among the speakers who will perform at the Queen’s Reading Room Festival at Hampton Court Palace.

First launched in January 2021, the Royal Reading Room was inspired by the success of the then Duchess of Cornwall’s reading lists shared during the 2020 pandemic.

Now operating as an online literary hub, it offers book recommendations and exclusive insight from the authors themselves.

Vicki (pictured centre) speaks with Queen Camilla and novelist Sebastian Faulks at a Royal Reading Room event in October 2022

Since joining the royal family in 2005 with her marriage to Prince Charles, Camilla has made the issue of literacy – especially among children – central to her work and is a patron of seven charities, including the National Literacy Trust and First Story.

Camilla, who previously described herself as a “voracious” reader, said in 2020, “There is no friend so loyal as a book” – a quote from American author Ernest Hemingway.

Through the National Literacy Trust, the Reading Room is linked to libraries across the UK to ensure that featured titles are available for free to as many people as possible.

Speak against Fashion last year, Camilla revealed that she also shares her passion for reading with King Charles.

She explained, “When we go out, the nicest thing is we actually sit in different corners of the same room and read our books.

“It’s very relaxing because you know you don’t have to have a conversation. You just sit and be together.’

Comedy troupe Austentatious (pictured 2019) don period costume to improvise a play based on a fictional Austen title created by Camilla

At its inaugural literary festival later this month, comedy troupe Austentatious will don a period costume to improvise a play based on a fictional Austen title created by Camilla.

The organizers promise the event will be ‘a literary festival like no other’ – breaking with the stuffy convention of ‘authors plugging in their own books’. The Queen has rolled up her sleeves in organizing the one-day extravaganza on June 11.

The festival will also honor the life and work of Wolf Hall novelist Dame Hilary Mantel.

It is hoped that the festival will become one of Camilla’s legacy projects by inspiring more people to start reading.