The Duchess of Cornwall, 73, made the sweet admission ahead of the start of her book club. Camilla chatted with author and illustrator Charlie Mackesy about their shared love of drawing the animals.
The Duchess praised Mackesy’s best-selling book The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse.
She said: “I’ve read it so many times. It’s an easy read but it’s a deep read at the same time.
“And I just love your drawings. I’ve spent my whole life as a child doodling horses.”
The writer replied: “Have you? Me too! That’s what I always do.”
Camilla continued: “I used to do it everywhere, but mine unfortunately, hasn’t turned out like yours.”
Mackesy told the royal that did not matter, saying he used to volunteer and teach a group of 80-year-olds who insisted they could not draw.
He added: “I said, ‘Well, you can, it’s just you can’t draw like other people.
“‘But does that matter to you? Why not just draw like only you could draw and then try and accept that’.
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The chat came in the run-up to the start of The Reading Room next week, which Camilla is launching to create an online hub for literature lovers.
The titles in the club’s first winter season will be announced on January 15. New books will be added each season.
Mackesy had written Camilla a note asking what he could do to help with The Reading Room.
She requested a special illustration and he created The Reading Room Owl – a bespectacled owl reading a book.
Booklover Camilla was encouraged to set up her online reading room after the positive response to her reading lists published at Easter and during the summer.
Books chosen by Prince Charles’s wife ranged from The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman to A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
Camilla holds seven patronages related to literature, including the National Literacy Trust.
She has also presented the prestigious Booker Prize for a number of years.
