{"id":344681,"date":"2025-12-31T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/344681\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T13:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:00:07","slug":"queen-camilla-says-she-was-so-angry-after-assault-on-train-when-a-teenager-queen-camilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/344681\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Camilla says she was \u2018so angry\u2019 after assault on train when a teenager | Queen Camilla"},"content":{"rendered":"

Queen Camilla has spoken for the first time about how she was \u201cso angry\u201d when she was physically assaulted on a train<\/a> as a teenager.<\/p>\n

Camilla described the incident in an interview with BBC Radio 4\u2019s Today programme, during which she also praised the courage of the racing commentator John Hunt and his daughter Amy, whose family were murdered at their home.<\/p>\n

She said she had \u201csort of forgotten\u201d about the experience, but the memory had lurked for a long time. \u201cSomebody I didn\u2019t know \u2026 I was reading my book, and you know, this boy, man, attacked me, and I did fight back,\u201d she told the programme.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I remember getting off the train and my mother looking at me and saying: \u2018Why is your hair standing on end?\u2019 and \u2018Why is the button missing from your coat?\u2019 But I remember anger, and I was so furious about it, and it\u2019s sort of lurked for many years.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I think, you know, when all the subject about domestic abuse came up, and suddenly you hear a story like John and Amy\u2019s, it\u2019s something that I feel very strongly about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Queen Camilla (centre) with (left to right) Amy Hunt, John Hunt, Theresa May and Emma Barnett in the Garden Room of Clarence House, London Photograph: Neil Paton\/Buckingham Palace\/PA<\/p>\n

Louise Hunt, 25, her sister Hannah Hunt, 28, and their mother, Carol Hunt, 61, were killed by Kyle Clifford, 27 \u2013 Louise\u2019s ex-partner \u2013 in a quiet cul-de-sac in Bushey, Hertfordshire, on 9 July last year.<\/p>\n

In the interview for the programme,guest-edited by the former prime minister Theresa May, Camilla said: \u201cI\u2019d just like to say, wherever your family is now, they\u2019d be so proud of you both. And they must be from above smiling down on you and thinking, my goodness me, what a wonderful, wonderful father, husband, sister.\u201d<\/p>\n

Interviewed by Emma Barnett, Hunt said he and his daughter \u201chave travelled such a long way since 9 July 2024 , the day the girls were murdered\u201d and wanted to highlight the issue of domestic abuse and violence against women and girls.<\/p>\n

Hunt said that, more than one year on, \u201cit remains very difficult on a minute-by-minute basis. You have to try and find the strength in our position to arm yourself with as many tools as possible that can help you get through that next hour , get through that next day. We\u2019ve been blessed with sufficient brain power to work our way through that quagmire and we have found solutions that have got us this far.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m staggered that we are as well as we are at this particular moment in time. There\u2019s still a lot more work to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the support of Amy, her fiance and Hannah\u2019s boyfriend, he said, \u201cyou gain wisdom and confidence that, all right it\u2019s not the future you wanted, but there is a small fragment of future that exists still for you\u201d.<\/p>\n

Amy, 32, said what had become obvious was \u201cdomestic violence and domestic abuse stretches across classes, ages, locations\u201d. She added: \u201cThere\u2019s a huge part of us that\u2019s still in disbelief in shock. Perhaps we will be in in that state for the rest of our lives given the magnitude of our loss.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though they missed them \u201cevery single minute of the day\u201d they were sustained by the \u201ccare, the joy, the positivity and the humour\u201d her sisters and mothers had given to the world.<\/p>\n

Misogyny and the radicalisation of young men online was a huge problem, she said, which \u201clargely goes unchecked\u201d with tech companies allowing it \u201cto run rampant\u201d on social media. Her father said having \u201cthis very dark world open up to me in the starkest possible fashion has been jarring. It\u2019s something I\u2019ve had to navigate very quickly and I\u2019ve had to educate myself as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

His wife and daughters were murdered by Clifford after Louise ended their relationship. The family had been at pains to be welcoming to Clifford during the 18-month relationship, he said. \u201cWhen things turn so disastrously against you \u2026 and I\u2019m still wrestling with it now \u2026 it\u2019s such a demanding thing to try and work out how on earth we ever got here.\u201d<\/p>\n

The queen praised their courage in speaking out \u201cin these very difficult circumstances\u201d. Talking could be \u201ccathartic\u201d, she said. \u201cThe more you can talk about it the more you can try and get rid of these terrible demons and terrible memory of what happened to you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of her own work highlighting domestic violence, she said the \u201cmajority of people actually don\u2019t want to know. It\u2019s been a taboo subject for so long.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cI thought if I\u2019ve got a tiny soap box to stand on I\u2019d like to stand on it.\u201d Some perpetrators may have suffered abuse themselves, she said. \u201cIf you can get them early enough and teach the respect for women, I think that\u2019s so important to get into schools.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lady May said it was a \u201csad fact\u201d that a young boy going online, say for health or fitness, \u201cit\u2019s not that many clicks away before you\u2019re taken to some really dark and dangerous material\u201d and that algorithms ensured \u201cyou start living in an echo chamber\u201d. She added: \u201cYou can legislate as much as you like, but at the end of the day it\u2019s about attitudes and it\u2019s about mindsets.\u201d<\/p>\n

A fundraising gala was held this month to launch the Hunt Family Fund, set up in memory of Carol, Louise and Hannah to raise money for charities and causes that help and inspire young women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queen Camilla has spoken for the first time about how she was \u201cso angry\u201d when she was physically…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-344681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}