UK’s Queen Camilla describes assault by man on train
She responded by removing a shoe and using it to hit her attacker in the genitals
Queen Camilla has described for the first time fighting off an attack by a man on a train when she was a teenager, speaking in an interview with the BBC in which she recounted how furious the assault had left her.
“When I was a teenager, I was attacked on a train … I remember at the time being so angry,” she said during a discussion broadcast on Wednesday about violence against women.
“I was reading my book and you know this boy – man – attacked me, and I did fight back.”
She said she did not know the man who attacked her.
Camilla, 78, has for many years championed charities and causes that seek to end sexual and domestic violence and to support victims.
The assault was first reported in September when a book about the royal family was serialised in The Times newspaper, but had not previously been confirmed by Buckingham Palace.