HILARY ROSE
Camilla’s new podcast: give her a G&T and a decent interviewer
The first episode of The Queen’s Reading Room is commendable, but I do wish she’d dare to say something interesting
Queen Camilla’s podcast is more whimsical and homespun, perhaps deliberately, with no Hollywood bells and whistles, writes Hilary Rose
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Let’s start by agreeing the obvious: reading books for pleasure is a good thing and hurrah for anyone trying to encourage it. Then let us ponder the well-meaning oddity that is the podcast from her charity The Queen’s Reading Room which is a commendable effort by Her Majesty to achieve the above. It starts with the sort of music they use in Channel 5 programmes about Balmoral through the ages or the early love life of the Princess Royal. There’s a breathless introduction, not by the Queen but by Vicki Perrin, the chief executive of the charity. She tells us that HM wants to inspire people to love reading as much as she does, and that each week we will hear from HM herself. Then
