Her romances were so intelligent, raunchy and outrageously readable that she created her own category, bewitching generations of readers

The best-selling author of novels including Rivals wrote glamorous tales of love, lust, and horses.

Rivals author died aged 88 after a fall, with Queen wishing her a "hereafter filled with impossibly handsome men and devoted dogs".

The Rivals author was famed for her raunchy romance novels, selling more than 12million books in her career.