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For her 79th birthday, Queen Camilla launched a dazzling new literacy initiative: every 10- and 11-year-old in Britain will receive a special edition of Katherine Rundell’s fantasy novel Impossible Creatures, personally signed by the Queen, starting this Christmas. Part of the “Queen’s Christmas Present” program with the National Literacy Trust, it’s designed to reignite reading passion just before kids enter secondary school — a pivotal moment when many lose interest. The book, praised for sparking imagination and critical thinking, comes with free classroom resources and is distributed through schools and libraries. This effort builds on Camilla’s long-standing advocacy for reading, including her charity, The Queen’s Reading Room. To celebrate, a new portrait of the Queen was unveiled — featuring her in a blue dress and a butterfly brooch originally gifted to her late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, in 1977.

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