Queen Camilla opens up about teenage assault

Queen Camilla has opened up for the first time about an assault she suffered as a teenager.

The Queen revealed she was assaulted on a train as a teenager by a stranger during a radio discussion with BBC commentator John Hunt about violence against women.

She said to BBC’s Radio 4, “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.

“[It was] somebody I didn’t know. I was reading my book, and this boy, man, attacked me, and I did fight back.”

Queen Camilla also revealed that her mother questioned her when she returned home because her hair “was standing on end” and a button was missing from her coat.

The attacker’s identity is not known, but she did say that she believed he was not too much older than her at the time.

Queen Camilla said the memory has haunted her and has been “lurking in the back of my brain for a very long time.”