Think Rivals is wild? Jilly Cooper was my neighbour and the Cotswolds I grew up in was even racier - from royal shenanigans to a Spanish hunk who worked his way through the county's housewives

Champagne-popping parties and indiscretions galore were routine growing up in Bisley, the beautiful Cotswolds village that the late Jilly Cooper, my then neighbour and family friend, so perfectly cap…