Watch: Queen Camilla recalls anger at train attack in first public comments on assault

Camilla speaks for the first time about being assaulted on a trainSource: BBC Radio 4 Today

Transcript

00:00When I was a teenager, I was attacked on a train.

00:03I'd sort of forgotten about it, but I remember at the time being so angry.

00:08Somebody I didn't know, I was reading my book and, you know, this boy, man, attacked me.

00:16And I did fight back.

00:20And I got off, I remember getting off the train and my mother looking at me and saying,

00:25you know, why is your hair standing on end and why is the button, you know,

00:32mitting from your coat?

00:33Of course, so it was physical.

00:35I was being attacked.

00:36But I remember anger and I was so furious about it.

00:42And it sort of lurked for many years.

00:46And I think, you know, when all the subject about domestic abuse came up

00:49and suddenly you hear a story like John and Amy's, it all, you know,

00:54it's something that I feel very strongly about.