Overview
- Queen Camilla, who visited on Tuesday, July 7, played the game of Poohsticks on Poohsticks Bridge with competition winners, local children and children’s authors.
- She formally opened a new all‑weather path called the Queen’s Walk and paid tribute at the A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard memorial at The Enchanted Place.
- The Royal Family published video and photo posts of the visit the same day, showing Camilla meeting children, cutting a cake and touring key sites in the forest.
- Reports said the sticks used for the game were collected from Buckingham Palace and Ray Mill, and attendees included authors and illustrators such as Dame Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.
- The visit highlighted the Royal Literary Fund’s link to Milne’s estate, which reporting says has generated about £91 million for the charity since 1972, and the new trail is intended to make the forest easier to visit for future generations.