Queen speaks publicly for first time about indecent assault which noticed her combat again
Camilla recalled in a radio broadcast being “so angry” and “furious” about the incident, which happened on a train when she was a teenager and saw her fight her attacker back with her shoe
The Queen has spoken publicly for the first time about her experience of being attacked on a train as a teenager.
Her attacker tried to grope her on a train when she was a schoolgirl and she had to fight him off with the heel of her shoe.
Camilla has recalled in a radio broadcast being “so angry” and “furious” about the incident. Camilla told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “I remember something that had been lurking in the back of my brain for a very long time, that when I was a teenager, I was attacked on a train, and I’d sort of forgotten about it, but I remember at the time being so angry. It was anger.”
She was in conversation with BBC racing commentator John Hunt and his daughter Amy, whose family were murdered at their home last year, and former prime minister Baroness Theresa May for the recording.
The Queen added: “Somebody I didn’t know. I was reading my book, and you know, this boy, man, attacked me, and I did fight back. And I remember getting off the train and my mother looking at me and saying, ‘Why is your hair standing on end’, and ‘Why is the button missing from your coat’.
“But I remember anger, and I was so furious about it, and it’s sort of lurked for many years. And I think, you know, when all the subject about domestic abuse came up, and suddenly you hear a story like John and Amy’s, it’s something that I feel very strongly about.”
She also praised Mr Hunt and his daughter. Louise Hunt, 25, her sister Hannah Hunt, 28, and their mother Carol Hunt, 61, were killed by Kyle Clifford, 27 – Louise’s ex-partner – in a quiet cul-de-sac in Bushey, Hertfordshire, on July 9 last year.
Camilla said in the recording: “I’d just like to say, wherever your family is now, they’d be so proud of you both. And they must be from above smiling down on you and thinking, my goodness me, what a wonderful, wonderful father, husband, sister.
“They’d just be so proud of you both.”
The recording was chaired by BBC broadcaster Emma Barnett.
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