{"id":482533,"date":"2025-12-31T14:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T14:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/482533\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T14:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T14:19:11","slug":"queen-camilla-speaks-publicly-for-first-time-about-train-attack-as-teenager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/482533\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Camilla speaks publicly for first time about train attack as teenager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      London<br \/>\n        \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmjtvxb1100u627nobzgzbvxg@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Britain\u2019s Queen Camilla has spoken publicly for the first time about how she had to \u201cfight back\u201d after being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/09\/01\/uk\/queen-camilla-assault-claims-scli-intl-gbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">assaulted by a stranger<\/a> on a train when she was a teenager.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmjtya5qp00063d5t2bvq8hxs@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cWhen I was a teenager, I was attacked on a train,\u201d Camilla told BBC Radio 4\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d program, aired Wednesday. \u201cI\u2019d sort of forgotten about it, but I remember at the time being so angry.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmjtya5qp00073d5t1hcjopvb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201c(It was) somebody I didn\u2019t know. I was reading my book, and this boy, man, attacked me, and I did fight back,\u201d she said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmjtya5qp00083d5taaftuit3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            After getting off the train, Camilla revealed how her mother had asked why her hair was \u201cstanding on end\u201d and why a button was missing from her coat, pointing to the assault\u2019s physical nature.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmjtya5qp00093d5tym5k5pc8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The identity of the attacker is not known, but Camilla said he was \u201cprobably not a great deal older than me,\u201d even though at the time she thought he was an \u201cold man.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmjtya5qp000a3d5te4davnti@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            She said the memory of the attack has been \u201clurking in the back of my brain for a very long time.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmjtya5qp000b3d5tul4q6dxu@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The Queen disclosed the incident in a radio discussion about violence against women, alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/07\/11\/europe\/crossbow-attack-violence-women-bbc-journalist-intl-gbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC commentator John Hunt<\/a>, whose wife, Carol, and two daughters, Louise and Hannah, were killed by Louise\u2019s ex-partner. The couple\u2019s surviving daughter, Amy, also joined the discussion.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmjtya5qp000c3d5trqhlf6wi@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Details of the train attack were previously included in an excerpt from the book \u201cPower and the Palace,\u201d released earlier this year by Valentine Low, a former royal correspondent for The Times of London newspaper.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmjtya5qp000d3d5t4j5y7cpj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The book included additional details about the incident, as told to Low by Guto Harri, who was communications director for former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson during his time as Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmjtya5qp000e3d5tqipejiwp@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cShe was on a train going to Paddington \u2013 she was about 16, 17 \u2013 and some guy was moving his hand further and further,\u201d Harri told Low in the book, recounting a story Camilla had reportedly told Johnson at Clarence House.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmjtya5qp000f3d5tm5ie3qdg@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            At that point, Johnson asked what happened next, Harri told Low. According to Harri, Camilla replied: \u201cI did what my mother taught me to. I took off my shoe and whacked him in the nuts with the heel.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmjtya5qp000g3d5tdbu612hk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cShe was self-possessed enough when they arrived at Paddington to jump off the train, find a guy in uniform and say, \u2018That man just attacked me\u2019, and he was arrested,\u201d Harri continued.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmjtya5qp000h3d5ttltgn1os@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Buckingham Palace did not release an official statement at the time of the book\u2019s release.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmjtya5qp000i3d5the8vb63j@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Camilla, who became Queen in 2022, has made it her mission to raise awareness about violence against women and girls. Last year, she teamed up with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/08\/uk\/queen-camilla-documentary-domestic-violence-intl-scli-gbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all-female production crew<\/a> in a powerful documentary in which she vowed to keep on working to eradicate domestic abuse.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmjtya5qp000j3d5t44hqwi69@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            CNN\u2019s Jack Guy contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Britain\u2019s Queen Camilla has spoken publicly for the first time about how she had to \u201cfight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":482534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-482533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115814620629967591","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}