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Queen Camilla hosts event at Queen's Reading Room, Clarence House; ** FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY ** ENGLAND: London: Clarence House: INT Queen Camilla speech (Gyles Brandreth (Author and Broadcaster) and Vicki Perrin (The Queen's Reading Room Director) in b/g) SOT - Ladies and gentlemen, it's a huge pleasure to welcome you to Clarence House this evening, to mark the third anniversary of my reading room as a book club and the first as a charity / now this year is also the 125th anniversary of the late great Sir Noel Coward / he was a brilliant and very funny man who was a friend of the Queen Mother and came to many events here / I doubt however that this reception will be quite as hair raising as that in the Master's song 'I went to a marvelous party' with its wonderful lines: 'We knew the excitement was bound to begin, when Laura got blind on Dubonnet and gin, and scratched her veneer with a Cartier pin, I couldn't have liked it more' - Interestingly, Coward frequently said he wasn't really one for parties, but he had rather be at home with an apple and a good book / well, I hope that none of you is currently wishing the same / it is of course primary, our shared love of good books that's brought us together this evening / that and the need to celebrate and thank you all and do all we can to promote a passion for reading / and for that, for that there's no better inspiration than the man of the hour Noel Coward, who left school at nine and attributed all his later learning to the membership of the Battersea Park Library and to reading everything he could lay his hands on - Now, as we're about to hear from Vicki after I've spoken, in addition to our five a day and our 10,000 steps, we should all be aiming for at least five minutes of reading every day for invaluable benefits for brain health and mental wellbeing / just as we always suspected, books are good for us, and now science is proving us right / thanks to all of you The Reading Room is doing what it can ...