Instead, royalties from the new novella will go to the National Literacy Trust, which works with disadvantaged children, so everyone’s happy.
They didn’t argue, and no one had any problems with it the charities just couldn’t be associated.” This just felt like such a great story, so rich in possibilities. Otherwise, Bond just goes on a mission as usual, working for ‘King and Country’. “It’s On His Majesty’s Secret Service it’s being published two days before the coronation. “They said it was probably best not to do a story about trying to stop the Coronation… at which point I thought, ‘But that’s the story, it’s got to be the story’,” continues Higson. The original plan was for royalties to support The Prince’s Trust and Camilla’s Reading Room literacy charity, but Higson’s regicidal plot – featuring a wealthy, eccentric and anti-‘woke’ wannabe king called Athelstan of Wessex, allegedly a descendent of Alfred the Great – ruled out an official tie-in.
“Charles is apparently a big fan of the Bond books and there was that great moment at the 2012 Olympics where the Queen and 007 came together – our two greatest cultural icons united – so that was the obvious place to start.”
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