Queen pays tribute to ‘legend’ Jilly Cooper after writer dies aged 88

Adam Goldsmith
Live reporter

Author Dame Jilly Cooper has been remembered as a
“legend” by Queen Camilla, after the author’s dying on the age of 88
was introduced by her youngsters this morning.

“Mum was the shining light in all of our lives,”
Cooper’s youngsters Felix and Emily wrote, as they shared the information that the
writer died after a fall on the weekend.

Renowned because the queen
of the so-called “bonkbuster”, Cooper’s novels typically portrayed
the scandals, intercourse lives and social circles of the rich horse-loving nation
set.

The Dame’s fabled Rutshire Chronicles, which featured
lothario Rupert Campbell-Black, had even discovered
a brand new viewers after novel Rivals turned successful Disney+ sequence when it
was tailored for the display screen final 12 months.

Cooper’s agent Felicity Blunt mentioned: “You would not
count on books categorised as bonkbusters to have so emphatically stood the check
of time, however Jilly wrote with acuity and perception about all issues – class, intercourse,
marriage, rivalry, grief and fertility.

“She wrote, she mentioned, merely ‘so as to add to the sum of
human happiness’.”

That brings our dwell protection to an finish right here, however you’ll be able to
learn our information story for a full obituary.

The BBC
Arts documentary In My Own Words – which options private archive and
interviews with Cooper can also be accessible now on iPlayer, and shall be repeated
on BBC 2 at 23:00 BST tonight.