Dame Jilly Cooper leaves £8.5m fortune to children
Dame Jilly died after sustaining a fatal head injury in a fall at her Gloucesterhire home in 2025.
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"You wouldn't expect books categorised as bonkbusters to have so emphatically stood the test of time but Jilly wrote with acuity and insight about all things – class, sex, marriage, rivalry, grief and fertility."
— Felicity Blunt , Celebrity
Key People
Aidan Turner is an actor who stars in the Disney+ adaptation of Dame Jilly Cooper's 'Rivals'.
Alex Hassell is an actor who stars in the Disney+ adaptation of Dame Jilly Cooper's 'Rivals'.
Andrew Parker Bowles is the ex-husband of Dame Jilly Cooper and partly inspired her character Rupert Campbell-Black.
Dame Jilly Cooper was a celebrated author known for her bonkbuster novels.
Danny Dyer is an actor who stars in the Disney+ adaptation of Dame Jilly Cooper's 'Rivals'.
David Tennant is an actor known for his role as the tenth Doctor in 'Doctor Who.'
Emily Atack is an actress who stars in the Disney+ adaptation of Dame Jilly Cooper's 'Rivals'.
Felicity Blunt is the agent of Dame Jilly Cooper who paid tribute to her after her death.
Hayley Atwell is an actress who made a cameo appearance in the Disney+ series 'Rivals'.
Katherine Parkinson is an actress who stars in the Disney+ adaptation of Dame Jilly Cooper's 'Rivals'.
Rupert Everett is an actor who made a cameo appearance in the Disney+ series 'Rivals'.
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Dame Jilly died after sustaining a fatal head injury in a fall at her Gloucesterhire home in 2025.
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