Queen Camilla sends letter of support to rape survivor Gisele Pelicot

Queen Camilla has written has written a letter of support to Gisele Pelicot.

Gisele Pelicot was drugged and raped by her former husband, who then also invited dozens of strangers to rape her for almost ten years. The letter to Gisele has not been published.

A royal aide told Newsweek magazine, “[The Queen] was tremendously affected by the Madame Pelicot case in France and that lady’s extraordinary dignity and courage as she put herself in the public eye because, as she rightly put it, why should she be made to feel like a victim or hide away in shame. And, of course, she helped highlight a very significant societal problem despite all the personal suffering she’d been through. So, as a long-term supporter of survivors of domestic and sexual abuse, the Queen wrote to Madame Pelicot privately. It was very much her instigation and determination to write to express support from the highest level.”

Gisele’s former husband, Dominique Pelicot, was found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Another 50 men were on trial at the same time and all were convicted.