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A TV host has revealed exactly what Queen Camilla is really like after meeting her at an event in New York during her and King Charles's recent state visit to the US. The King and Queen spent four days across the pond for a trip filled with pomp and pageantry.

On Wednesday, they undertook engagements in New York. One of those engagements was an event at the New York Public Library.

The Queen attended in a bid to highlight her popular book club, The Queen's Reading Room and celebrate literature with guests who included Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker and former US President George W. Bush's daughhter and TV host, Jenna Bush Hager.

At the event, Camilla told Jenna that their trip to the US had been a "whistlestop," adding: "It's been really good fun, but we have moved quite fast."

On Thursday's episode of Today, the TV star spoke about what it was like spending time with the monarch's wife.

She said: "She is lovely and very hilarious. She has a deep and abiding passion for books."

During Wednesday's event, the broadcaster said the royal couple had been to "a lot of places", to which the Queen replied: "We have, but it's been wonderful and everybody's been very kind and welcoming.

"It's always a pleasure to be here. Always lovely to be back in New York."

Camilla mentioned how her love of reading stemmed from her father, saying: "Oh, but he was wonderful.

"He used to sit at the end of our beds every night and read us these incredibly exciting stories, some of them quite frightening, pillows over our head, but he just gave us this incredible interest.