Queen Camilla reveals she was groped on a train as a teenager

The Queen praised former racing commentator John Hunt and his daughter Amy for their fight against domestic violence.

“Your family would be proud of you both, wherever they are now,” Camilla said.

“And they must be smiling at you from above and thinking: ‘Oh my God, what a wonderful, wonderful father, husband, sister.’ They would be so proud of you both.”

Although this is the first time Camilla has spoken publicly about her attack, this incident has been described in the book before. Power and PalaceIt was published this year by former royal correspondent Valentine Low. Times of London. This statement was based on what the queen told former prime minister Boris Johnson when he was mayor of London.

According to Low’s book, Camilla was on the train to London’s Paddington Station when the man sitting next to her reached out and tried to touch her.

She fought him off by taking off her shoe and hitting him in the groin. When he arrived in Paddington he found a man in uniform and told him what had happened and the man was arrested.

Baroness Harriet Harman, Britain’s special envoy for women and girls, said it was “crucial” that the Queen spoke publicly about her experience.

“In the past, when a woman was murdered by her husband or intimate partner, the consensus was that it was the woman who caused it, and the women’s movement challenged that claim,” Harman told BBC Radio.

“We’re now seeing a new form of this debate emerge among the likes of Andrew Tate and on social media, a new kind of toxic masculinity that basically says men are struggling with their own identity and it’s women who are at fault because women’s advancement undermines men’s sense of themselves, and sometimes that causes them to resort to violence.”

Harman also talked about his own experiences.

“It happened to me at work, it happened to me at university, it happened to me when I was a young girl traveling around London and a young girl going to the movies,” she said.

“For a long time, there was a feeling that nothing could be done, that no action would be taken, that I would be blamed, that I would be told that I took the blame.”

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