Valentine Low’s Power and the Palace relays story in which young Camilla ‘whacked attacker in the nuts’ on train to Paddington
Queen Camilla was a victim of an attempted sexual assault as a teenager and used the heel of her shoe to fight off her attacker, a new book about the monarchy has claimed.
According to Power and the Palace, serialised in the Sunday Times, the queen told Boris Johnson about the attack while he was mayor of London, a position he held from 2008 to 2016.
Valentine Low, the book’s author and a former royal correspondent for the Times, spoke to Johnson’s former communications director Guto Harri, who recalled the future prime minister telling him about the meeting that took place at Clarence House in about 2008.
In an extract from the book, Harri said the pair “got on like a house on fire”, with Johnson making “guttural noises” about how much he admired and liked Camilla.
