A caller photograph of Queen Camilla has been released to observe her 79th birthday.
The picture, showing the Queen successful a agelong bluish dress, was taken past period successful the authorities drafting country of Hillsborough Castle successful Northern Ireland.
Buckingham Palace said the Queen was marking her day with a renewed committedness to supporting children's literacy, with the announcement that each twelvemonth 6 and P6 kid crossed the UK volition beryllium talented a peculiar variation of the publication Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell this Christmas.
Much of the Queen's nationalist enactment supports speechmaking and literacy, including the instauration of the Reading Room foundation designed to beforehand the benefits of reading.
Rundell's publication volition beryllium distributed to children done schools and libraries.
Each transcript volition incorporate a idiosyncratic connection from the Queen, who describes it arsenic a "brilliant phantasy that volition present you to a big of mythical friends and terrifying enemies".
The caller UK publication gifting and speechmaking programme has been announced successful concern with the National Literacy Trust, which has the Queen arsenic its patron.
The programme is portion of the National Year of Reading 2026, which aims to animate the joyousness of speechmaking and embed it successful regular life.
Last month, the Queen met Harry Potter writer JK Rowling to people the commencement of Royal Week successful Edinburgh.
The brace discussed their "shared passionateness for books" and value of children speechmaking during the gathering astatine the Palace of Holyroodhouse.
She has besides supported the BBC's 500 Words originative penning contention for children.
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