20th January 2021 The Duchess of Cornwall elaborated on the idea behind her newly-launched Reading Room, writing that she hopes it will be a digital “resource, a reassurance and a refuge for all book lovers” around the world to gather and discuss literature. In an exclusive for The Sunday Times and shared on the Prince of Wales’s website, Camilla writes of the journeys reading took her on without ever leaving her home. “From the dank cells of the Bastille, to the stalls of Barchester Cathedral, through bleak graveyards, overgrown with nettles, to tropical beaches, empty save an ominous footprint. I crossed windswept moors with brooding heroes, battled three-headed dogs and white witches alike and climbed Magic Faraway Trees. That is the eternal power of a good book, the joyous escape into another world.”