Camilla Parker-Bowles is well known for being a lover of books and hopes to get as many people as possible reading during this COVID-19 lockdown period. Speaking to The Press and Journal, she said: ”Ernest Hemingway, famously, once said ‘there is no friend as loyal as a book’. “In these challenging times when we are isolated from the ones we love, many of us are finding comfort in reading, to fire up our imaginations, to take us on journeys and to make us laugh.

“With that in mind, here is a list of my dearest ‘friends’.”

One of the books she has recommended is called Travels on my Elephant by Mark Shand, her late brother.

The book tells the story of his adventures with his elephant Tara across India.

Speaking of the book, Camilla said: “My late brother’s tale of his love affair with Tara, an Asian elephant, on their journey across India… it always brings a tear to my eye.”

Mr Shand was the author of four travel books and a BBC conservationist.

His book Travels on My Elephant became a bestseller and he was the chairman of the wildlife foundation, Elephant family.

He died in 2014 at the age of 62 after falling in New York and sustaining fatal injuries because of a very thin skull.

The book list includes the fantasy novel The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman and A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.

Speaking of the Victorian novel, she said: “This is a wonderful story of romantic and familial love set against the violence of the French Revolution.

“It is one of my favourite books by Charles Dickens and, in my humble opinion, one of his best.”

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The other books are Restless by William Boyd, The Simon Serrailler series by Susan Hill, The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard, A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles, The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain and The Architect’s Apprentice by Elif Shafak.

The Duchess of Cornwall promotes books by her patronages, including the Literacy Trust, the BookTrust, Coram Beanstalk and the Royal Society of Literature.

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