Queen Camilla of Britain described for the first time how she fought off a man who assaulted her on a train when she was a teenager. In her BBC interview, she spoke about how angry she was after the attack. “When I was a teenager, I was assaulted on a train… I remember how angry I was at the time,” Queen Camilla said during a discussion broadcast today on the topic of violence against women. “I was reading my book and, you know, this boy –the man– attacked me and I fought back,” Camilla said, explaining that she did not know the man who assaulted her.
Camilla: “I was furious about it and it sort of festered for many years”
The 78-year-old Camilla has been involved for years with charitable organizations and campaigns that seek to end sexual and domestic violence and support victims. The assault against her was first mentioned in September when a book about the royal family began serialization in The Times newspaper, but had not previously been confirmed by Buckingham Palace. “I remember getting off the train, my mother seeing me and asking ‘Why is your hair standing on end and why is there a button missing from your coat?’,” Camilla told the BBC. “I was furious about it and it sort of festered for many years,” she commented. The book states that the incident occurred on a train bound for London’s Paddington station when Camilla was 16 or 17 years old, and as she herself recounted, she took off her shoe and used it to strike the man who assaulted her in the genitals.
When she arrived at Paddington, she pointed out the man who assaulted her to a station official, who then arrested him, according to the book. Camilla, who is the second wife of King Charles, who ascended to the throne in 2022, did not confirm these details in the interview.
