The new Queen made her first official royal visit since her Coronation today - to a primary school in north west Bristol. Queen Camilla launched a national Coronation Libraries initiative at Shirehampton Primary School in Bristol, meeting pupils and teachers from ten other schools that have created libraries in their schools.
The Queen also met leading children’s authors and joined pupils in a lesson to create their ‘dream library’. The initiative will see 50 ‘Coronation Libraries’ that will be created in schools across the UK in the next year to mark her and King Charles’ Coronation earlier this month.
HRH joined author and former Children’s Laureate Cressida Cowell, who wrote the ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ series of children’s books, in a session to design a library, with representatives from Arts Council England, the publishers Oxford University Press and the the National Literacy Trust, leading the Coronation Library project, also involved.
