The Queen joins guests, including actresses Helena Bonham Carter CBE and Dame Joanna Lumley, at Clarence House, to celebrate the results of The Queen’s Reading Room study into the link between reading fiction and wellbeing, which has proven a clear link between reading fiction and increased mental health, brain health and social connectedness. Her Majesty has long championed a love of reading across generations and is passionate about shining a light on the importance of literature. Report by Czubalam. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 In addition to our five a day and our 10,000 steps, we should all be aiming for at least
00:07 five minutes of reading every day for invaluable benefits for brain health and mental well-being.
00:16 Just as we always suspected, books are good for us and now science is proving us right.
00:25 Thanks to all of you, the Reading Room is doing what it can to spread the word about
00:30 how literature quite simply makes life better.
00:35 Since it began three years ago, it has reached nearly 12 million people through all its platforms.
00:42 February, maybe.
00:43 Don't worry about it.
00:44 I like really...
00:45 Honestly, I'm not going to lie.
00:56 It's hard.
01:00 It's hard.
01:04 It's hard.