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Queen Camilla Says She Fought Off Teenage Train Assault in First Public Account

She spoke during a BBC program on violence against women to underline the issue's lasting toll.

Overview

  • In a BBC interview aired Wednesday, Camilla said she was assaulted on a train as a teenager and that she defended herself.
  • She recalled reading when an unknown boy or man attacked her and said the anger from the incident stayed with her for years.
  • She remembered arriving with messy hair and a missing coat button, details her mother noticed when she got off the train.
  • A September biography by Valentine Low previously reported she was 16 or 17, used her shoe heel to repel the attacker, reported it at the station, and that a man was arrested.
  • The conversation took place alongside BBC commentator John Hunt, whose wife and two daughters were killed in 2024 by an ex-partner later sentenced to life, as Camilla stressed her concern about domestic abuse.