"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."
"But the serious conversation they had was about her being the victim of an attempted sexual assault when she was a schoolgirl. She was on a train going to Paddington she was about 16, 17 and some guy was moving his hand further and further Harri said that after Johnson asked what she did next, she had replied: I did what my mother taught me to. I took off my shoe and whacked him in the nuts with the heel."
Queen Camilla was the victim of an attempted sexual assault as a schoolgirl while travelling by train to Paddington at about 16 or 17. She removed her shoe and struck the attacker with the heel, then reported him to a uniformed man at the station who arrested him. She told Boris Johnson about the attack while he was mayor of London. The queen, 78, has campaigned against domestic violence and sexual abuse and has focused royal charity work on supporting victims, including promoting washbags for attack survivors. Rape Crisis offers support on 0808 500 2222 in England and Wales, 0808 801 0302 in Scotland, or 0800 0246 991 in Northern Ireland. In the US, Rainn offers support on 800-656-4673.
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