The UK's Queen Camilla on Monday led tributes to British author Jilly Cooper, known for her unapologetically raunchy romance novels, who has died at the age of 88 following a fall.

A former journalist, Cooper penned the best-selling series of romantic novels known as The Rutshire Chronicles, which included "Rivals", recently adapted for television by Disney+.

Cooper's publishing house Curtis Brown said in a statement that the writer had died "on Sunday morning, after a fall".

"I was so saddened to learn of Dame Jilly's death last night," Camilla wrote in a message.

"She was a wonderfully witty and compassionate friend," the queen added, praising the writer as a "legend" in her "own lifetime ... creating a whole new genre of literature".

Cooper's publisher Bill Scott-Kerr said in a sta

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