Teenage Queen Camilla ‘fought off train attacker with high heel’

Queen Camilla told Boris Johnson she fought off an attacker with her shoe on a train to Paddington
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Queen Camilla once fought off a man trying to touch her leg with her own high heel, a new Royal book has claimed.

As a 16 or 17-year-old schoolgirl, Camilla allegedly encountered a strange man on a train to Paddington.

According to Power and the Palace: The Inside Story of the Monarchy and 10 Downing Street, serialised in The Times by Valentine Low, the Queen told Boris Johnson about the encounter when he first became Mayor of London in 2008.

She reportedly told Mr Johnson that ‘some guy was moving his hand further and further’. 

The then Duchess of Cornwall allegedly said she ‘did what my mother taught me to’ – taking off her high heel and striking the attacker with it. 

The Daily Mail reports that the now Queen is pragmatic about the horrific encounter being reported publicly.

Camilla as a 16-year-old (L) with friends going to watch a cricket match at Lords
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A source close to her told The Mail: ‘If reading about her own experience helps other women, then in the circumstances she would consider that a positive outcome.’ 

It was a warm summer’s day in 1970 when a 22-year-old Prince Charles locked eyes with Camilla Shand at a polo match in Windsor Great Park. 

As the future King of England, many likely spoke to Charles with a quiet, awed deference – but 24-year-old Camilla, who friends described as ‘outgoing and cheerful’, with a ‘lust for life’, wasn’t afraid to crack a flirtatious gag at her own expense with a senior royal.

‘My great-grandmother was the mistress of your great-great-grandfather,’ she was said to have quipped. ‘So how about it?’

This was the beginning of Charles and Camilla’s royal romance: but what was initially described as a ‘blissful and peaceful’ match soon erupted into a lifelong love affair which scandalised the nation, rocked the house of Windsor, and left commentators wondering whether Charles could ever be a suitable King.

Proving his critics wrong, King Charles and Queen Camilla were crowned at Westminster Abbey on May 6, 2023 in an historic coronation ceremony watched by millions around the world.

In the years following the exposure of her affair with the then-Prince Charles in 1992, Camilla has proven herself to be far more than the ‘third person’ in the marriage between Charles and Diana. 

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