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Queen Camilla reveals she secretly read Lady Chatterley's Lover as a teenager

Rank
Running
30h
Updated
19h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
6
Regions
1
Countries
5
Languages
5

Daily Mail United Kingdom · English 10 Oct, 00:16 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in Italiano (1) · Magyar (1) · Nederlands (1) · Ελληνικά (1) · +3 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 6 after 35 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Daily Mail, 10 Oct, 00:16 UTC.
  2. Second country: Greece, with Proto Thema.
  3. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 10 Oct, 07:09 UTC.
  4. Now: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

36 of 36 hours

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The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

100%

  • Europe 6 outlets · 5 countries · 100%

First movers

  1. Daily Mail 10 Oct, 00:16 UTC
  2. BBC News +4h 43m
  3. Proto Thema +6h 52m
  4. HVG +7h 30m
  5. La Repubblica +9h 52m

Latest arrivals

  1. Het Laatste Nieuws 10 Oct, 16:15 UTC
  2. La Repubblica 10 Oct, 10:09 UTC
  3. HVG 10 Oct, 07:46 UTC
  4. Proto Thema 10 Oct, 07:09 UTC
  5. BBC News 10 Oct, 05:00 UTC

The figures

Coverage
6 outlets in 5 countries. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 6 outlets, 1 public-service, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Europe 5: Belgium, Greece, Hungary, Italy, United Kingdom. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Greek, English, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch.
Timeline
Earliest article Daily Mail, 10 Oct 2026, 00:16 UTC. First seen 10 Oct 2026, 05:10 UTC. Last seen 10 Oct 2026, 16:15 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Europe, United Kingdom. Topic Culture. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
0.18, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain
Merged from 2 stories Queen Camilla reveals she secretly read Lady Chatterley's Lover as a teenager; Queen recalls reading Lady Chatterley's Lover under pillows as a girl. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box. A story merged from several was grouped from stories about the same event; each keeps its own headline and page, and the whole story counts every outlet and country once.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
10 Oct 2026 188 3.44 6 5 6 5 4.7

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Started 10 Oct, 05:10 UTC · Updated 16:15 UTC

Merged from 2 stories

Covered by 6 outlets

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  • Het Laatste Nieuws Belgium 10 Oct, 16:15 UTC
    Koningin Camilla las als tiener stiekem verboden erotische roman: “Als iets niet mag, wil je het hebben”
  • La Repubblica Italy 10 Oct, 10:09 UTC
    Camilla innamorata di lady Chatterley: “Il mio libro preferito, lo leggevo a letto di nascosto”
  • HVG Hungary 10 Oct, 07:46 UTC
    Kamilla királyné bevallotta: kamaszként titokban olvasta a Lady Chatterley szeretőjét
  • Proto Thema Greece 10 Oct, 07:09 UTC
    Καμίλα: Διάβαζα κρυφά τον «Εραστή της Λαίδης Τσάτερλι» με φακό κάτω από τα σκεπάσματα – Τι αποκάλυψε για τον Κάρολο
  • BBC News United Kingdom 10 Oct, 05:00 UTC
    Queen reflects on reading 'forbidden' Lady Chatterley's Lover under the pillow
  • Daily Mail United Kingdom 10 Oct, 00:16 UTC
    Queen Camilla recalls reading Lady Chatterley's Lover 'under the pillows by torchlight' as she reveals her favourite books
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