{"id":210691,"date":"2025-12-31T23:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T23:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/210691\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T23:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T23:07:09","slug":"queen-camilla-speaks-about-teenage-train-assault-and-anger-that-followed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/210691\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Camilla speaks about teenage train assault and anger that followed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Details of the assault emerged this year in the book Power and the Palace by former Times newspaper royal editor Valentine Low.<\/p>\n

According to Low, Camilla told former Prime Minister Boris Johnson about the incident in 2008 when he was Mayor of London.<\/p>\n

She recalled that she took off her shoe and used it to hit her assailant, something her mother had advised her to do when under attack.<\/p>\n

The queen, who is patron of the domestic abuse charity SafeLives, spoke as part of a pre-recorded discussion about violence against women and girls with BBC sports commentator John Hunt, his daughter Amy, and former Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May.<\/p>\n

Hunt\u2019s wife, Carol, and his two younger daughters, Hannah, 28, and Louise, 25, were murdered in a stabbing and crossbow attack at their home in 2024 by Louise\u2019s ex-boyfriend, who was later jailed for life.<\/p>\n

\"Carol,Carol, the wife of BBC sports commentator John Hunt, and his two younger daughters, Hannah, 28, and Louise, 25, were murdered in a stabbing and crossbow attack at their home in 2024 by Louise’s ex-boyfriend who was later jailed for life. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

The Hunts have set up a fund in memory of Carol, Louise and Hannah to raise money for charities and causes that help and inspire young women.<\/p>\n

Praising John and Amy, Camilla said hearing stories like theirs was \u201csomething that I feel very strongly about\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWherever your family is now, they\u2019d be so proud of you both,\u201d she told them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey must be from above smiling down on you and thinking, my goodness me, what a wonderful, wonderful father, husband, sister.\u201d<\/p>\n

– Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Details of the assault emerged this year in the book Power and the Palace by former Times newspaper…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1443,95,25348,17704,110932,3289,26523,156,18791,1888,60044,5620,111,139,69,48760,7241,3366,17213,54894,10706,4054,1361,2044,1865,11685,1316],"class_list":["post-210691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-about","tag-and","tag-anger","tag-assault","tag-attacker","tag-broadcast","tag-camilla","tag-entertainment","tag-fighting","tag-first","tag-followed","tag-interview","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-nzt","tag-publicly","tag-queen","tag-speaks","tag-spoken","tag-teenage","tag-teenager","tag-that","tag-time","tag-today","tag-train","tag-when"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}