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How Queen Camilla says she fought back against a train attacker in the 1960s

She recalled that she took off her shoe and used it to hit her assailant, something her mother had advised her to do when under attack

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Queen 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 Wednesday.

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Recalling the assault in the 1960s, the 78-year-old British royal said it had left her “furious” and been “lurking in the back of my brain for a very long time.”

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“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.

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