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Anthony Horowitz has claimed that parents are 'destroying their children' by sending them to private school and spoke of the 'incalculable damage' caused by his private education. The 68 year old novelist was sent to boarding school at eight years old and admitted in the aftermath of his 'terrible' experience he was a 'terribly damaged person'. The James Bond and Alex Rider author revealed he returned to the school many years later and suffered 'palpitations' causing him to nearly pass out and resulting in him being 'escorted' out of the dining hall. The author attended Orley Farm Prep school in Harrow, London and then Rugby School in Warwickshire. Horowitz told the BBC Headliners podcast: 'I was damaged. I mean my schooling, the five years I spent in a school in North London did incalculable damage.

My first food memory is egg in a hole. Basically, you cut a hole in some bread, add a cracked egg then fry them.  Or it was Vienna sausages and puffles - small, crunchy potatoes. If you give me that dish, I can still hear the music from The Saint, which we'd watch on TV in the nursery as we ate Sunday supper.

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As they drove themselves to church in Crathie Kirk this morning, the monarch and Queen Camilla (pictured) seemed relaxed. Queen Charles, 74, opted for a tweed jacket, but Queen Camilla wore an emerald ensemble.

When attending the dinner at The Fife Arms hotel in the Scottish Highlands, the King's wife, 76, put on a chic display in the emerald patterned frock. Judi Dench, a British actress, was joined by Dame Judi Dench, 88, as well as best-selling authors William Boyd and Anthony Horowitz, and journalist Grace Dent. In collaboration with The Queen's Reading Room, Camilla's book club, the three-day festival is being held in the Highland village. The online literary hub, which was first established in January 2021, was inspired by the then Duchess of Cornwall's reading lists, which were distributed during the pandemic in 2020. It features book recommendations as well as exclusive insights from the authors themselves.

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: If you're blessed with 17 children - whether full, half, or step - it's probably safer to let others handle the party planning. So Petra Khashoggi (pictured middle), who grew up thinking billionaire arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, allowed her chum Anna Rothschild to take charge of Danny Baker Jr's birthday bash last summer. 'It was a pleasure,' a visitor tells me, but Petra, who is now 43 but was 18 when she learned that her father was, in fact, former Tory Cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken. "We don't choose our families, but we can make our own," the chum says. 'She seemed to be missing a hug from home.'

James Bond's flaws, according to UK author Anthony Horowitz, left, who has written more than 50 books, are all 'aggressively masculine,' implying that a woman cannot play him. In paperback later this month, his book With A Mind To Kill is published, and it sees an ageing, weary 007 venture into the Soviet empire's heart. It's a sequel to Fleming's last Bond book, The Man With The Golden Gun, in which a brainwashed Bond fights to murder his boss and mentor M. D.

This week, UK writer Sarah Vine examines Magpie Murders on BBC1, which is based on Anthony Horowitz's 2016 book and adapted here by him. It's clever, witty, beautiful, beautifully filmed, superbly staged, and gracefully portrayed,' she says.'

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: If you felt the first part of Great Expectations (BBC1) was traumatic, the second episode was even worse. Any part of this adaptation is beyond belief, but the majority of all exposes Steven Knight's storytelling in a brutal way.

Anthony Horowitz, a novelist who writes the popular young adult Alex Rider series, said that while some books are amusing, writing quality is not 'literary.' When asked about the commercial success of books by comedians David Walliams and David Baddiel, he said: "I agree that any book a child reads is a good thing, but it does rankle me that the shelves and bestseller lists are now jam-packed with books that don't raise the level of literacy, but simply entertain.' Everybody in the industry sighs over a certain sort of kid's book, but that is the way it is. I'm not against any author. There are authors whose writing quality is not what I'd call literary, but if their books are selling millions and giving people pleasure, who am I to criticise?'

Horowitz (left), the author of the Alex Rider series, said he opposed publishers making changes in the midst of a continuing debate over reader sensitivity. In recent months, publishers have edited out terms deemed 'offensive' in books by late authors, with 'ugly' being stripped from Roald Dahl's Twits book (inset) to describe a character. Agatha Christie's (pictured right) works had been restricted over the weekend, with several passages in Agatha Christie's Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries having been revised or entirely deleted, according to several pages. Horowitz, a writer who reads at the Oxford Literary Festival, said: "I'm specifically opposed to tampering with the work of deceased writers.' They can't protect themselves.'

After a 'quiet' winter, Sapphire Bates (top right), who runs Book Bodega in Ramsgate, Kent, had been crippled financially by increasing electricity bills. The 29-year-old retailer told her on Saturday that she urgently needed customers to pay her £800 bill by Tuesday or face possible closure. Ms Bates tweeted a snapshot of her empty store (left): Winter is killing us, it's so quiet, and we need to make £800 by Tuesday to pay our bills.' This is my most up-to-date information: no customers are enrolled. Please shop with us and help us stay open!' With big-named supporters including comedian Sue Perkins, her tweet went viral in a matter of hours and has been watched more than 5.7 million times. And by Sunday, her store was packed (bottom right), with online orders arriving from around the world.

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Anthony Horowitz, the Foyle's War creator, has fallen foul of the woke police. His new book has been censored by'sensitivity readers' employed by his U.S. publishers. Even though the word'scalpel' refers to Native Americans, they say it has nothing to do with scalping, they retaliate against it. We must now identify as 'First Nation' warriors' because they will remove the scalps from white settlers and display them as trophies. With A Mind To Kill, Horowitz' book has nothing to do with the Wild West. It's the third in a sequence of James Bond thrillers since he picked up the baton from late Ian Fleming and set it mainly in Russia and Eastern Europe. The last time anyone noticed, there aren't many Navaho's in Leningrad. Well, and the scalpel in question belonged to an actor playing a doctor. That, too, was 'problematic.' The sensitive brigade put out a description of the same person as having a face that could have been cut out of wood.'

According to Anthony Horowitz, writers are facing 'death by a thousand cuts' as a result of publishers' concerns about cultural sensitivities. Editors, according to the Foyle's War and Alex Rider column, were pressuring writers to rewrite books due to fears of offending readers and so-called cancel culture. Horowitz, 67, said he was asked to change a passage in his last murder mystery, which described a Native American character as attacking someone with a scalpel. Horowitz said he was advised to substitute the word scalpel with'surgical instrument' in the case of his publisher's'sensitive sensitized reader.

67, the multi-millionaire, has instead published stories that don't enrage anyone so that his books aren't damaged.' When asked whether as a writer, he might want to challenge his followers, he said, 'I fear the truth is that at the time it's really not worth bothering people because of the punitive response you might get.' He said in May that literary expression is limited by a "culture of fear." "I don't want to offend people to the point that my books are destroyed," he said. I'm not alone at the end of the day. My publishers are heavily dependent on me. Everybody knows about independent bookstores and the big chains. I'm part of a company. I find that if I start talking politics or getting into those areas of turmoil, I should just shut down and get to the point because that's what I'm being paid to do.'

Anthony Horowitz (inset), 67, the author of fictional teenage spy Alex Rider, has written three James Bond books, the most recent of which was published in May this year. But the author, who was named for services to literature in the 2021 New Year's Honours list, confirmed that With A Mind To Kill would be his last entry for the franchise. "I'm writing the books and I always hear Sean Connery and see Daniel Craig." I'm perfectly content to defend Bond. He's a man of the 50s and 60s, so he has a different moral code than the one we have today. I refute the argument that he is chauvinistic, sexist, or misogynistic.' Pictured left: Daniel Craig with Eva Green in Casino Royale, 2006. Correct: In 1983, Sean Connery and Kim Basinger appeared in 'Never Say Never Again.'