I can't bear bumping into you! Queen Camilla attends book festival alongside Paddington star Hugh Bonneville

Queen Camilla led the celebrity arrivals at a Scottish book festival in Aberdeenshire alongside Paddington star Hugh Bonneville and British romance novelist Jojo Moyes. Camilla, 79, joined famous faces and bestselling authors for the fifth edition of the Braemar Literary Festival, launched in collaboration with The Queen's Reading Room, at the Fife Arms Hotel in Royal Deeside today. The Queen was radiant in an autumnal ensemble comprising a plaid dress, navy sweater and a cosy puffer jacket. She finished the look with a pair of black tights, ballet flats and a small bag. Guests included American author Bonnie Garmus and bestselling Scottish crime writer Val McDermid, as well as the Queen's son, food critic Tom Parker Bowles, who was hosting a Q&A with the owners of the Fife Arms, Iwan and Manuela Wirth. The King's wife has attended the three-day festival on numerous occasions, most notably at its launch in 2022, when she met author Sebastian Faulks.The festivities are taking place just a short drive from Balmoral Castle, where Camilla has spent the summer with King Charles, 77. Queen Camilla led the celebrity arrivals at a Scottish book festival in Aberdeenshire alongside Paddington star Hugh Bonneville and British romance novelist Jojo Moyes Hugh Bonneville, who also portrayed the Earl of Grantham, in Downton Abbey was among the VIPs at the fifth edition of the three-day Braemar Literary Festival Camilla launched her book club during the Covid-19 pandemic, and it quickly grew into a charity that champions literature and provides free educational content. The Braemar Literary Festival brings together novelists, historians, artists, and actors with keen readers of all ages.The Queen's visit to the Fife Arms was recorded in the Court Circular. However, it did not mention whether she had popped into the establishment's famous Bertie's Whisky Bar, inspired by the life and times of King Edward VII. The watering hole is named after King Charles's great-great-grandfather, known to his family as Bertie, who had an affair with Alice Keppel, the great-grandmother of Queen Camilla.The hotel is also home to the famous The Flying Stag pub, a private wine bar called The Cellar and Elsa's, an Art Deco cocktail bar created in honour of Elsa Schiaparelli, the famed fashion designer who often visited Braemar.Queen Camilla was perhaps instead entertained in the hotel's star dining room - the Clunie - which is named after the river which runs past the establishment. It was painted in a modern design by the artist, Guillermo Kuitca.It comes after Camilla highlighted the need for 'togetherness' in response to the war of words between Buckingham Palace and Earl Spencer over his memoir about Diana. The Queen was radiant in an autumnal ensemble comprising a plaid dress, navy sweater and a cosy puffer jacket. She finished the look with a pair of black tights, ballet flats and a black bag The Queen appeared to be in high spirits as she joined acclaimed historians and novelists on day two of the Scottish literary festival The Braemar Literary Festival was launched in collaboration with the Queen's Reading Room At her literary festival in Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, Camilla quoted a proverb in reference to the bitter row that broke out following some of the claims in his book, serialised by the Daily Mail. The Queen said she was 'recently reminded of a rather beautiful proverb, "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together"'.She added: 'The fact that we have "gone far" is due to the incredible support offered to us by a huge number of book lovers: writers, actors, publishers and, above all, readers.'Her intervention came after Earl Spencer insisted 'I'm telling the truth' when Buckingham Palace said grief had clouded his 'reason, judgment and memory'.In his book, Diana's younger brother claimed that King Charles, then the Prince of Wales, said 'we'll forget her [Diana] soon enough' during an argument over William and Harry's involvement in her funeral.Earl Spencer later doubled down on claims that the King had made disparaging comments about Diana soon after she died in an interview with the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg. Speaking from his Althorp estate in Northamptonshire, Lord Spencer suggested that Charles is embarrassed by the 'monstrous' alleged comment that the 'People's Princess' would soon be forgotten.'I've only ever had two calls on the line with Prince Charles at any stage of my life,' the Earl said. 'I was hyper alert to what he was saying and those are precisely the words that he said, and I promise that to you now.'Details of a new BBC Arts documentary featuring Camilla were also revealed at the Queen's Reading Room Festival last week. 'The Book That Changed My Life' is expected to air on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer on October 14, subject to confirmation in the weekly television schedules.Broadcasting in the National Year of Reading 2026, the documentary will see Queen Camilla explore the transformative power of reading, meeting four remarkable people whose lives have been changed by books at moments when they most needed them.Warm, emotional, and full of hope, the film explores how reading can lift us, open our minds and, sometimes, change the course of a life.The Braemar Literary Festival will conclude with an eagerly-anticipated appearance from the Maclean Brothers - Ewan, Jamie and Lachlan. The Scottish siblings first made headlines in 2019 when they became the fastest trio to row across the Atlantic Ocean, covering 3,000 miles from the Canaries to Antigua in 35 days and breaking the previous record by nearly a week.Determined to keep working together for causes they believed in, they founded The Maclean Foundation, with a mission to raise funds for clean water projects. Last year, they rowed the Pacific Ocean, 9,750 miles from South America to Australia, setting a new Fastest Known Time and becoming the first team ever to row this route unsupported and non-stop. At sea for 139 days, they faced storms, seasickness, dwindling rations and even a man-overboard incident, raising over £1 million to bring safe, clean water to more than 40,000 people.They will share the story of their adventure, captured in their new book Three Brothers in a Boat, as well as the purpose and people that motivated them.