Known for her raunchy romance novels, Jilly Cooper has been appointed Dame in the New Years Honours List 2024 for her services to literature after penning her first novel in 1975
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Cooper is in mourning after the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, Michael Howard, died last week aged 87. He was one of her three inspirations for her caddish character Rupert Campbell-Black.