Queen Camilla reveals secret reading habits!

Queen Camilla recently revealed her secret reading habits to encourage young people to continue the age old tradition of “reading by torchlight”.

The Queen recalls reading the highly controversial Lady Chatterley’s Lover under the covers. As a teenager in the 1960s, the salacious nature of D.H. Lawrence’s most famous story held a forbidden appeal to the Queen, and remains a source of facination for readers today.

Queen Camilla reflects on D.H. Lawrence as she promotes her Queens Reading Rooms project, part of a countrywide campaign to encourage reading and combat the culture of screen addiction. In an increasingly digitising world, its more important than ever for young readers to enjoy the connections that can be made through reading.

D.H. Lawrence remains a popular author because of his controversy as well as the timeless nature of his reflections on life and love. The Queens reflection on Lady Chatterley’s Lover is an excellent example of how readers of all ages can find enjoyment and connection in D.H. Lawrence, and the enduring relevance of his work.

Purchase your copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover here (reading under the covers optional):

Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence | Waterstones

To read more about Queen Camillas love for D.H Lawrence, click below:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm70pee7l57do

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2026/10/10/queen-read-lady-chatterleys-lover-teenager/

Written by Victoria Shipton for Paper Lion Ltd, 2026

Why was Ada Lovelace’s Work Ignored for so Long?

Ada Lovelace is well known to us as the creator of the modern algorithm, but that hasn’t always been true. Her work almost died with her.

This new book, published in Uraguay on Ada Lovelace Day (13 October) charts the perilous journey of her calculations and ideas from an obscure and defunct academic journal, to the major libraries of Europe. That’s where Douglas Hartree discovered it nearly 100 years later, in 1949. He and his team were researching a new invention: the modern computer. Hartree immediately recognised the relevance of Ada’s groundbreaking work and it became the foundation of the emerging science of computing.

In this book, you can find out how Ada came to write her amazing theories, how they were preserved, and how they eventually came out of the shadows when their time was right.

Now her name is so celebrated that we have a worldwide Ada Lovelace day every October, promoting the work of women in science, so that no woman will ever again have to wait 100 years for her work to be recognised.

ADA LOVELACE: The Origins of Algorithmic Thought and Poetical Science by Alvaro Moure Clouzet is published by Templo Oceanico and you can buy copies in English or Portuguese here: Amazon.co.uk