{"id":133432,"date":"2026-02-14T11:46:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/133432\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T11:46:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:46:33","slug":"gisele-pelicot-felt-overwhelmed-and-honoured-by-letter-from-queen-camilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/133432\/","title":{"rendered":"Gis\u00e8le Pelicot felt overwhelmed and honoured by letter from Queen Camilla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gis\u00e8le Pelicot waived her right to anonymity during the 2024 trial to make the &#8220;shame swap sides&#8221; from the victim to the rapist. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She became a global figurehead of strength and feminism, and during the 15-week trial in Avignon, supporters stood outside the court every day with signs thanking Ms Pelicot for her courage, and calling for justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was an honour for me to receive this letter, I wasn&#8217;t expecting it at all,&#8221; Ms Pelicot, 73, told Victoria Derbyshire for BBC Newsnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was overwhelmed that the Queen could send me this letter.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gis\u00e8le Pelicot waived her right to anonymity during the 2024 trial to make the &#8220;shame swap sides&#8221; from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-133432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}