Yesterday, the Queen met members of a charity dedicated to raising awareness of economic abuse and heard powerful stories from women affected by the issue.
Camilla met officials from the Surviving Economic Abuse (SEA) charity and heard women tell their stories in a room, before a wider reception which also involved banking industry representatives.
Economic abuse involves a current or ex-partner controlling someone else’s money and what that money can buy, such as housing, food, transport, employment, child maintenance, clothing and phones.
It is often perpetrated alongside other abusive behaviours, such as physical, sexual and psychological abuse, to build fear and isolation.
© GettyQueen Camilla during a private discussion with Dr Bijna Kotak Dasani (C) and Rebecca Beattie (L)
Thanking the charity at the reception, the Queen said: “I thought I knew most things about domestic abuse but I’ve learned a lot today that I didn’t know about.
“And talking to all these very brave women and getting them to tell their stories and talk to each other and put to all the banks and the financial institutions under one umbrella, swapping ideas and stories I think is the way forward. So, I just hope that today has been a step in that direction.”