Autumn in Rutshire is the season of moist and mellow fruitiness – jilly weather, they call it – but an air of melancholy lay over the county. The trousers hung at half-mast at Penscombe Court, the ...

More than 40 years ago, I wrote a piece for a newspaper about the screaming domestic chaos of my first months of marriage.

To love is to lose is one of the harshest truths of life. Celebrities are often seen sharing beautiful anecdotes and photo ...

SIR - PETA feels the loss of Dame Jilly Cooper, whose pen brought to light the untold stories of animals in war, and more.

Life-long Jilly obsessive Imogen Macdonald is able to quote Cooper verbatim at drinks parties and was presented with a signed copy of her 1969 How to Stay Married at her hen. Macdonald pens an ode to ...

The celebrated author – described by the Queen as ‘a legend in her own lifetime’ – has passed away following a fall ...

Jilly Cooper in the 1970s, when pineapples, coconuts and pet cats were just as popular as they are today. The Country Life ...

University Challenge fans were left feeling "spooked" as the BBC show aired a tribute to Dame Jilly Cooper on Monday ...

University Challenge fans were left "spooked" as the BBC show aired a Dame Jilly Cooper tribute just hours after her death.

University Challenge fans were left feeling "spooked" as the show aired a tribute to Dame Jilly Cooper just hours after her death. The literary icon, who notably wrote "bonkbuster" novels Rivals and ...

As well as her beloved dogs, Dame Jilly said she also hoped to also be reunited with her late husband: "I'd love to see Leo ...

For 50 years until her death this week, aged 88, Dame Jilly offered Britain fine social distinctions, finer bottoms and the chance to use words like “buttocks” in an otherwise bleak world. And Britain ...