‘I leapt at the chance of the festival. The Queen is genuinely important to books’
As a writer of historical fiction, Kate Mosse loves nothing more than rummaging around in record offices or archives, reading old documents and excavating the past.
Which is why taking part in the first festival to celebrate the Queen’s Reading Room at Hampton Court Palace is such an exciting prospect.
“Everywhere you look there is something extraordinary, a painting, or just thinking about all those people who have walked down those corridors,” she says, looking around her in awe during hello!’s exclusive photoshoot and interview at the magnificent royal palace. “It’s the echoes of the past.”
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