Queen Camilla expressed her gratitude after receiving heartfelt birthday wishes from her well-wishers.
However, the Queen shifted the focus from her birthday celebrations to a cause close to her heart as a reader.
To mark her special day, Camilla announced a new initiative which will promote reading among children.
Author Katherine Rundell’s Impossible Creatures will be given to every Year 6 and P6 child across the UK as a gift this festive season.
The author shared a video message thanking the Queen for making the effort with the Queen’s Christmas Gift Program celebrating the 2026 National Year of Reading.
In a personal statement, Katherine said: “The Queen’s gift comes at the best possible time. This is the National Year of Reading, a celebration and reminder that the things that reading gives us – creative imagination, intellectual freedom, critical thinking, ethical compassion, good jokes, delight in good ideas – must be at the heart of our future and our democracy.
“I am so immensely honored and excited that Impossible Creatures will be placed in the hands of so many brilliant young readers.”
