Shreya, her second child and third book, meet The Queen in London at Her Majesty’s invitation!

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Images with The Queen at Clarence House and in front of a rainswept Buckingham Palace from British media and NLT colleague

“Pussycat, pussycat where have you been? I’ve been to London to see The Queen. Pussycat, pussycat, what did you there?”

Shreya and her schoolgirl daughter were invited, in recognition of their efforts to encourage literacy in Britain, along with select Literacy Champions, to meet The Queen in London, to celebrate the National Literacy Trust’s 30th anniversary.

Shreya’s third book, ‘Handle With Care’ (HarperCollins 2022), was presented to The Queen at the celebration, selected from the many books nominated as ‘reader favourites’ from across Britain.

A wonderful royal adventure, with fab people, dampened only by the incessant rain (hence the waterproofs of the second photo)!

Shreya invited to meet Queen Camilla in recognition of her work in encouraging literacy in Britain

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Shreya and her daughter have received an invitation to meet the Queen of England at a celebration in London this summer! Along with other champions of the National Literacy Trust, Britain’s largest literacy charity, they have been invited in recognition of the “brilliant work” they do to “share the joy” of reading and writing, and championing of literacy in Britain.

Shreya’s first play ‘Quiet’ in London News

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The UK’s longest established Asian, black and ethnically diverse-led theatre company has a new season under its new artistic director. Tara Theatre plans to return to its activist roots, with politically- charged, innovative theatre on stage, in the form of ‘2020’, a collection of monologues about the challenges of the past year. The monologues are by writers including playwright Sonali Bhattacharyya and the first Indian woman to write an international opera, Shreya Sen-Handley. They explore a range of issues as far-ranging as Trump’s America to Liverpool FC winning their 19th top flight title, the PPE scandal for care workers, and the plight of an autistic son and mother learning about themselves in the quiet of the lockdown.

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Shreya’s play ‘Quiet’ premieres at award-winning Tara Theatre, London, sharing a stage with Hanif Kureishi

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“Tara Theatre is the UK’s longest established Asian, Black and ethnically diverse led theatre company…The new works come from writers Hassan Abdulrazzak, Shahid Iqbal Khan, BBC Words finalist Amina Atiq, Erinn Dhesi, Reginald Edmund, Carlo Kureishi, Hanif Kureishi, Asif Khan, Yuqun Fan, Abhishek Majumdar, Sumerah Srivastav, Sonali Bhattacharyya (Winner of Theatre Uncut Political Playwriting Award) and Shreya Sen-Handley (recently announced as the first Indian woman to pen an international opera).”

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