Camilla dedicates special project in memory of ‘great fellow reader’ Prince Philip

Camilla, who launched earlier this year her very own book club on Instagram, dedicated its second season to her father-in-law Prince Philip. In a brief statement released to mark the

beginning of the new reading season, Camilla affectionately addressed Prince Philip as "a great fellow reader". 

She said: "As Patron of Booktrust, which I inherited from my late father-in-law His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, I would like to dedicate the next series of my Reading Room to him,

in memory of a great fellow reader..." 

This brief statement was signed off with a "C", indicating it had been penned by Camilla herself.

It also presented Camilla's monogram under the Prince of Wales's coronet.

This remark was shared as a picture part of a post reminding members of her Reading Room book club which books will be read and discussed during the spring.  

As revealed on April 9, a few hours before the death of Prince Philip was announced, Camilla has picked four books to be read and discussed by members of her club by the summer. 

These books are: The Secret Commonwealth from The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman; Girl by Edna O'Brien; A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles; The Red Notebook by Antoine Lauraine. 

The second season of her Reading Book was meant to begin on April 15. 

However, following the death of the Duke of Edinburgh, it was postponed to today, after the end of the period of national mourning. 

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Prince Philip and Camilla shared a passion for books and reading. 

The Duke of Edinburgh was the proud patron of Booktrust, the UK's largest children reading charity, for several years before passing the role on to Camilla in 2011. 

Camilla is also the patron and president of several other organisations focused on literacy and education. 

Among them, there are the National Literacy Trust and First Story. 

The Duchess of Cornwall, who officially joined the Royal Family in 2005 upon marrying Prince Charles, launched the Reading Room project on December 31 last year. 

The Reading Room's Instagram page has so far shared Camilla's views on books and literacy as well as the impact her beloved father's love for reading has had on her life.

Famous authors have also been welcomed on the page to share their own reading tips and favourite books.  

And readers have taken to the comments under each post shared by the Duchess to comment on books and how their reading experience was going. 

Camilla has also used her Reading Room to speak about the importance of reading to children and promote the work done by some of her charity. 

In late March she said in a brief clip published on Instagram: "I read to my children and now I read to my grandchildren.

"I love it. I read to them when they were absolutely tiny. 

"And they've got older and older and older, and now they actually read to me!" 

She then went on to speak to Beanstalk, a charity she is the patron of, which coordinates volunteers reading to children in school. 

Speaking about children who listened to volunteers reading to them, Camilla said: "The difference it made to their lives.

"I mean, it's so important, I think, to just read from an early age."

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