Queen Camilla fought off a man who tried to assault her on a train when she was just a teenager. The revelation is made in a new book by Valentine Low.
In the book, Power and the Palace: the Inside Story of the Monarchy and 10 Downing Street, it's claimed that The Queen was attacked at the age of 16 or 17 when on a train to Paddington. As the man refused to back away, Queen Camilla said she ''did what my mother taught me to'' and hit him with one of her high heeled shoes. The account was given to Boris Johnson in 2008 when he was Mayor of London and so had authority over the capital's transport system.
Queen Camilla has long been an advocate against domestic abuse and sexual assault. However, a source close to Buckingham Palace told the Mail on Sunday that Her Majesty has ''never wanted to equate what she went through as a young woman with the stories so many victims and survivors have had the courage to share with her over her past decade of campaigning on the issue.''
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The Queen has been prolific and loud in her campaigning against domestic violence. In 2024, she took part in a TV programme called Her Majesty The Queen: Behind Closed Doors in which cameras followed her work supporting women in abusive relationships. She spoke about the impact that violence has. During that show, The Queen said ''you learn how terrifying it is for a woman to be stuck with a very violent partner, feeling that fear every day.'' And Her Majesty added ''one of the most difficult things about domestic abuse, to understand, it's not the bruises and the black eyes, which unfortunately you see, through violence, this is something that creeps up very slowly and, far too often, it ends up with women being killed.''
There's no doubt that Queen Camilla's voice is making a difference to the campaign against domestic violence. The latest revelation, although not intended in that way, will only boost the visibility given to this area which is so often overlooked.
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