Tributes have poured in for celebrated novelist Dame Jilly Cooper after her death aged 88 following a fall.
The 'Queen of the bonkbuster' author, famed for her raunchy romance novels, sold more than 12million books in her career.
Dame Jilly's children Felix and Emily said her death on Sunday morning, announced today, has come as a 'complete shock' as they called her the 'shining light' of their lives.
Queen Camilla, whose first husband Andrew Parker Bowles was said to have been the inspiration for Dame Jilly's invented lothario Rupert Campbell-Black, hailed the author as a 'legend' and a 'wonderfully witty and compassionate friend'.
Fellow author Gyles Brandreth called Dame Jilly, 'simply adorable. Brilliant, beautiful, funny (so funny), sexy (so sexy!), the best company, the most generous & thoughtful & kind-hearted friend.'
