Queen Camilla attends the Christmas Morning Service at Sandringham Church on December 25 in Norfolk. Photo / Getty ImagesQueen Camilla has spoken for the first time publicly about fighting off an attacker on a train when she was a teenager, in an interview broadcast today NZT. “When I was a teenager, I was attacked on a train, and I’d sort of forgotten about it, but I remember at the time being so angry,” she told BBC radio. I was reading my book, and you know, this boy, man, attacked me, and I did fight back. “And I remember getting off the train and my mother looking at me and saying, ‘why is your hair standing on end?’, and ‘why is the button missing from your coat?’,” she added.

Source: New Zealand Herald January 01, 2026 11:06 UTC