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Queen Camilla Publicly Recounts Teenage Train Attack on BBC Radio 4 Today Programme

She used the broadcast to encourage open discussion of violence against women.

Overview

  • A pre-recorded BBC Radio 4 Today special aired on 31 December featured Camilla with John and Amy Hunt at Clarence House, in an edition guest-edited by Theresa May.
  • She described feeling furious and fighting back against an unknown assailant as a teenager, giving her first on-air account of the incident.
  • An earlier book, Power And The Palace, reported she struck the man with her shoe, reported him at Paddington and saw him arrested; the palace did not dispute that account.
  • The programme spotlighted the Hunts’ fund for charities addressing domestic abuse, created after Kyle Clifford murdered Carol, Hannah and Louise Hunt in 2024; he received a whole-life order in March.
  • Camilla urged early education and open conversation to prevent abuse, with participants also raising concerns about the online radicalisation of young men.