- Queen Camilla is celebrating her 79th birthday by arranging for a special edition of Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures to be given to every Year 6 and P6 child across the UK this Christmas.
- This initiative underscores her dedication to children's literacy, a key focus for her as patron of the National Literacy Trust.
- The fantasy novel, Impossible Creatures, has garnered significant recognition, including being named Waterstones Book of the Year in 2023 and winning the British Book Awards Children’s Fiction Book of the Year in 2024.
- To mark her birthday, Buckingham Palace also released a new photograph of the Queen.
- The photo, taken in June at Hillsborough Castle, features her in a blue dress adorned with a diamond and sapphire butterfly brooch that previously belonged to Queen Elizabeth.
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