Queen pays tribute to 'irrepressible' Jeffrey Archer

Queen Camilla paid tribute to bestselling author Jeffrey Archer, who died at the age of 86. "Seldom does an writer get to unrecorded a beingness arsenic rich, varied and colourful arsenic immoderate of the characters successful their books, oregon with arsenic galore astonishing crippled twists," she said in a statement. She added that Lord Archer was "not without flaw" but that "friends volition callback him as an irrepressible beingness unit done each the galore differing chapters of his life." The former Conservative MP was jailed for perjury in 2001 after being found guilty of lying and cheating in his 1987 libel lawsuit against the Daily Star. The Queen said helium was "an objection to the end" and that it was "with sadness that I learned of his decease yesterday, connected the eve of work of his last enactment and truthful soon aft appearing astatine my Queen's Reading Room Festival." Lord Archer was a protagonist of the Queen's Reading Room charity. "My sympathies spell to Mary and the household astatine this clip of sorrow. I anticipation it whitethorn beryllium immoderate consolation for them to cognize what pleasance Jeffrey brought to maine and to truthful galore millions of readers done the pages of his works." "Wherever the adjacent leafage turns to, I spot determination volition beryllium champagne and Shepherd's Pie successful abundance. Camilla R."