Queen Camilla has she revealed she is absolutely ‘hopeless’ at mimicking characters from Harry Potter when reading to her grandchildren.
The 76-year-old has been delving into her literary favourites in a new podcast series called The Queen’s Reading Room, which will be released weekly from January 8.
Discussing her fondness for stories about the boy wizard, she revealed her husband, King Charles, is a much better impressionist who can ‘do all the voices’.
Asked what books the Queen most enjoys reading to her grandchildren, she said: ‘I think the one I enjoyed reading more than anything else was Harry Potter… all the stories.
‘I can’t mimic voices for love or money. I’m completely hopeless at it. I was a really bad actor at school and I’ve never been able to master the art of mimicry.
’But my husband, he does it brilliantly, he can do all the voices.’
The Queen, who has five grandchildren, said she will tell listeners on her new podcast what her all-time favourite reads are in the eight-part series.
It comes after a BBC documentary offered people a behind the scenes look at the Royal family during Charles III’s year of Coronation.
In the film, the Queen’s sister said the couple are ‘yin and yang’ but make an utterly formidable team.
Annabel Elliot described her sister as the King’s ‘rock’, while Camilla’s close friend, Lady Lansdowne, said the fact that the couple had to ‘fight’ to be together has only strengthened their unshakeable ‘bond’.
And speaking publicly for the first time about the King and Queen’s long relationship, Princess Anne – not known for her emotional effusiveness – gave her sister-in-law the royal seal of approval.
‘I’ve known her a long time off and on. Her understanding of the role and how much difference it makes to the King has been absolutely outstanding,’ she said.
‘This role is not something that she’d be a natural for but she does it really well. She provides that change of speed and tone, that’s equally important.’
Each episode of Camilla’s new podcast features a segment from herself before a different guest is interviewed.
Among the guests are Sir Ian Rankin, Dame Joanna Lumley and David Baddiel.
In the first episode, crime author Peter James discusses how how he manages to come up with so many ideas.
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