{"id":190250,"date":"2025-09-01T06:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T06:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/01\/book-claims-queen-camilla-stopped-train-attacker-by-hitting-him-with-her-shoe\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T06:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T06:06:10","slug":"book-claims-queen-camilla-stopped-train-attacker-by-hitting-him-with-her-shoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/01\/book-claims-queen-camilla-stopped-train-attacker-by-hitting-him-with-her-shoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Book claims Queen Camilla stopped train attacker by hitting him with her shoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-09-01\" datetime=\"1756706770\" pubdate=\"\">1 September 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Queen Camilla escaped being groped by a man on a train by whacking him with her shoe, according to a new book.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Queen Camilla<\/p>\n<p>The 78-year-old royal was reportedly aged &#8220;16&#8221; or &#8220;17&#8221; when she was attacked by a man on a train to Paddington Station in London and she got away by hitting him &#8220;in the nuts&#8221; with her heel and then reporting the incident to station staff.<\/p>\n<p>The details &#8211; which Buckingham Palace has not made an official statement about &#8211; are recounted in Power and the Palace, written by Valentine Low, The Times newspaper&#8217;s former royal editor.<\/p>\n<p>Low writes in his book, serialised in The Sunday Times, that Queen Camilla told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/boris-johnson\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,boris-johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boris Johnson<\/a>, 61, about the attack whilst he was Mayor of London at a meeting in Clarence House in June 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The author recounted speaking to Johnson&#8217;s former communications director, Guto Harri, 59, who told Low that the former Prime Minister informed him about their meeting in Clarence House.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn an extract from the book, Harri said: &#8220;Boris was raving about her. They obviously got on like a house on fire. He was making guttural noises about how much he admired and liked her. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;But the serious conversation they had was about her being the victim of an attempted sexual assault when she was a schoolgirl. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;She was on a train going to Paddington &#8211; she was about 16, 17 &#8211; and some guy was moving his hand further and further \u2026\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\nValentine wrote: &#8220;At that point, Johnson had asked what happened next. She replied, &#8216;I did what my mother taught me to. I took off my shoe and whacked him in the nuts with the heel.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Harri said, &#8216;She was self-possessed enough when they arrived at Paddington to jump off the train, find a guy in uniform and say, \u2018That man just attacked me\u2019, and he was arrested.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/royal_family\/book-claims-queen-camilla-stopped-train-attacker-hitting-shoe-1428750.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 September 2025 Queen Camilla escaped being groped by a man on a train by whacking him with her shoe, according to a new book. Queen Camilla The 78-year-old royal was reportedly aged &#8220;16&#8221; or &#8220;17&#8221; when she was attacked by a man on a train to Paddington Station in London and she got away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":190251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1361,12300,135,12299],"class_list":{"0":"post-190250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-boris-johnson","9":"tag-guto-harri","10":"tag-queen-camilla","11":"tag-valentine-low"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}