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Britain’s Queen Camilla as soon as fended off the undesirable advances of a man on a prepare, in line with a new book, which reveals that she advised the story of how she took off her shoe “and whacked him in the nuts with the heel.”
The anecdote is a part of an excerpt from “Power and the Palace” by Valentine Low, a former royal correspondent for Britain’s The Times newspaper, which was revealed within the Sunday Times on Sunday.
Low was advised the story by Guto Harri, who labored as communications director for Boris Johnson throughout his time as Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016.
Harri recalled how Johnson and Camilla, who was identified as the Duchess of Cornwall on the time, had “got on like a house on fire” throughout a assembly at Clarence House.
“But the serious conversation they had was about her being the victim of an attempted sexual assault when she was a schoolgirl,” Harri advised Low within the book.
“‘She was on a train going to Paddington — she was about 16, 17 — and some guy was moving his hand further and further …”
At that time, Johnson had requested what occurred subsequent, Harri advised Low. According to Harri, Camilla replied: “I did what my mother taught me to. I took off my shoe and whacked him in the nuts with the heel.”
“She was self-possessed enough when they arrived at Paddington to jump off the train, find a guy in uniform and say, ‘That man just attacked me’, and he was arrested,” Harri continued.
NCS has reached out to Buckingham Palace for touch upon the account within the new book, which is because of be revealed on September 11.
The palace has not launched an official assertion however doesn’t look like disputing the reported particulars.
Camilla turned Queen in 2022 when her husband, King Charles, acceded the throne following the loss of life of his mom, Queen Elizabeth II.
She has change into identified for her dedication to ending violence towards ladies, working to lift consciousness of the problem for greater than 10 years.
Camilla has used her place to focus on organizations that assist the victims of each home violence and sexual violence, as properly as supporting survivors of sexual assault by initiatives such as the Wash Bag Project, which gives toiletries for them to make use of after present process a forensic examination.