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Queen Consort speaks out against censorship of Roald Dahl books

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Queen Consort Camilla has seemingly waded into the ongoing literary debate over Roald Dahl’s publisher rewriting passages of his children’s books, in a speech at Clarence House. 

The 75-year-old today held a reception to mark the second anniversary of Her Majesty’s Reading Room after recovering from Covid. 

Addressing the crowd, Camilla welcomed ‘writers, publishers and book lovers’ to the event and ended her speech with a nod to Puffin’s sensitivity rewrite of certain Roald Dahl passages. 

The Queen Consort encouraged

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Modern Spirituality Is a Consumer’s Choice Now

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The decline of organized religion has privatized people’s search for meaning.

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Question of the Week

What is your relationship with organized religion? How has it affected your life,

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Roald Dahl kann nie nett gemacht werden

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Haben Sie ein Lieblingsbuch von Roald Dahl? Das tue ich – es ist sein Roman für Erwachsene, Mein Onkel Oswaldein Werk, das sich durch seine unablässige Misanthropie, vulgäre Sexszenen und seine beunruhigende Sympathie für Eugenik auszeichnet.

Die negativen Goodreads-Bewertungen von Mein Onkel Oswald neigen dazu, sich auf Sexismus, Homophobie und „Verherrlichung der Vergewaltigungskultur“ zu konzentrieren. Das Buch spielt um die Wende des 20. Jahrhunderts und folgt Oswald und seiner Komplizin Yasmin Howcomely, die durch Europa touren und Great Men

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