The Queen has launched the Coronation Libraries, a celebration of literature that will become a commemoration of the year in which she was crowned.

Over the coming months, fifty libraries and reading spaces will be created at primary schools across the country to mark the Coronation.

It’s all part of Queen Camilla’s ongoing work to encourage as many people as possible to read and to support literacy throughout communities.

All the areas chosen have current low levels of literacy and young people are less likely to have access to books than elsewhere.

The Coronation Libraries are being set up in collaboration with the Primary School Library Alliance. The spaces will be refurbished and restocked and a member of staff will be given training to help turn the libraries into facilities for everyone in the school.

Each library will also receive 23 new books with special plaques in them, commemorating the Coronation. There will also be a special commemorative plaque on the wall of each of the Coronation Libraries.

As the scheme got under way, Queen Camilla visited one of the schools, Shirehapmpton Primary in Bristol, where she met pupils and teachers.

Her Majesty also took part in a special reading session with the children where they heard Francesca Simon read from one of her famous books, ‘Horrid Henry’.

Author Cressida Cowell, a former Children’s Laureate, and representatives from the Book Trust and Arts Council England were also there as Shirehampton began its activities to create its dream library to mark the Coronation.