A new book says Queen Camilla once fought off a creep who tried to grope her—by taking off her shoe and swinging.
On Sunday, August 31, The Times ran an excerpt from Power and the Palace, a book by royal writer Valentine Low. The story comes from Guto Harri, who worked for Boris Johnson back when he was London’s mayor in 2008. Harri says that during a meeting at Clarence House, Camilla told Johnson about a scary moment from her schoolgirl years.
“She was on a train going to Paddington—she was about 16, 17—and some guy was moving his hand further and further,” Harri recalled. When Johnson asked what happened next, Camilla allegedly replied: “I did what my mother taught me to. I took off my shoe and whacked him in the nuts with the heel.”
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— darlings ? (@lasloria) August 31, 2025And she didn’t stop there. Once the train pulled into Paddington, Camilla reportedly marched up to a uniformed worker and reported, “That man just attacked me.” Harri said he was arrested on the spot.
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Camilla—who married King Charles in 2005 after a decades-long relationship—has never spoken publicly about the incident, but Harri suggested the experience shaped her commitment to helping survivors of sexual assault. Johnson was working to expand rape crisis centers across London at the time, and Camilla went on to support the project, formally opening two of the three new facilities herself. “Nobody asked why the interest, why the commitment,” Harri said. “But that’s what it went back to.”
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Now 78, the Queen has spent more than a decade championing survivors of rape, domestic violence, and sexual abuse, according to the royal household’s official site. She has visited Sexual Assault Referral Centres across the U.K., supported charities like SafeLives, and hosted events at Buckingham Palace highlighting the voices of survivors and frontline workers.
If you or someone you know has been a victim of sexual assault, help is available 24 hours a day through RAINN's National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673.
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