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He is the eighth-generation descendant of Rupert Black (who married Miss Campbell). Campbell-Black's first appearance is in the novel Riders, which follows the lives and loves of a group of horse riders and show-jumpers. Although initially portrayed as a brutish, womanizing, adulterous cad, Campbell-Black's character is later somewhat redeemed ...
They are linked by several recurring characters, chiefly Rupert Campbell-Black, and are set in the fictional English county of Rutshire. Some of these characters, namely Campbell-Black and numerous characters associated with him, also occur in Cooper's novel Pandora , although it is not part of the series [ citation needed ] .
In 1986, British nobleman, old money MP Rupert Campbell-Black and, coming from the bourgeoisie nouveau riche (though married into old money), Tony, Lord Baddingham, have a rivalry that seeps into the world of Baddingham's Corinium independent commercial television station, located in the (fictional) county of Rutshire, in the Cotswolds region of southwest England. [2]
Set against the backdrop of the English Cotswolds countryside, Riders follows the fortunes of a group of fame and money hungry show jumping stars.. Jake Lovell, the gypsy-born hero of the novel, is a brilliant horseman desperately seeking revenge for years of bullying at the hands of the glamorous but brutish aristocrat Rupert Campbell-Black.
For example, her own house is the model for Rupert Campbell-Black's. Both houses are very old, although his is larger; [5] her house overlooks a valley called Toadsmoor, while his overlooks a valley called the Frogsmore. She also draws on her love of animals: [6] dogs and horses feature heavily in her books. Woods, hills, fields, pastures and ...
In 2002, Jilly Cooper revealed that Rupert Campbell-Black was a composite of Andrew Parker Bowles, Rupert Lycett Green, Michael Howard, 21st Earl of Suffolk, and the 11th Duke of Beaufort, commenting on their place in the development of Campbell-Black: "a wildly dashing and exciting group, and their bravery and charisma were the essential ...
Rivals is a 1988 novel by English author Jilly Cooper.It is the second of the Rutshire Chronicles, a series of books set in the fictional English county of Rutshire. In 2018, Sherry Baines narrated the audiobook; [1] Georgia Tennant subsequently recorded another version in 2024.
He had a leading role [10] in the 2024 Disney+ TV adaptation of the 1986 novel Rivals, playing playboy Rupert Campbell Black, [11] alongside a cast that included David Tennant, Danny Dyer, Aidan Turner, Emily Atack, and Katherine Parkinson. [11]