Queen Camilla, the wife of King Charles, revealed that she was assaulted on a train as a teenager on BBC Radio’s Today programme, aired on Wednesday 31 December.
‘I WAS ATTACKED’ SAYS QUEEN CAMILLA
Queen Camilla revealed that she was attacked on the train when she was a teenager.
“When I was a teenager, I was attacked on a train. I’d sort of forgotten about it, but I remember at the time being so angry,” she said on BBC Radio’s Today programme.
“(It was) somebody I didn’t know. I was reading my book, and this boy, man, attacked me, and I did fight back,” she continued.
After getting off the train, Camilla revealed how her mother had asked why her hair was “standing on end” and why a button was missing from her coat, pointing to the assault’s physical nature.
She did not reveal the identity of the attacker.
HE WAS ‘PROBABLY NOT A GREAT DEAL OLDER THAN ME’
Queen Camilla said he was “probably not a great deal older than me,” even though at the time she thought he was an “old man.” The Queen expressed that the memory of the attack has been “lurking in the back of my brain for a very long time.”
The incident was disclosed during a radio discussion about violence against women, alongside the BBC commentator John Hunt. Hunt’s wife, Carol, and two daughters, Louise and Hannah, were killed by Louise’s ex-partner. Amy, the couple’s surviving daughter, also joined the discussion.
The details of the train attack were previously revealed in an excerpt from the book Power and the Palace, released earlier this year by former correspondent for The Times of London newspaper, Valentine Low.
King Charles shared a cancer update.