Queen Camilla Describes Train Attack in First Public Statement

In an interview Wednesday, Britain’s Queen Camilla spoke publicly for the first time about an assault she experienced as a teenager. The incident, which occurred in the 1960s, helped convince the queen to make opposition to domestic abuse one of her royal causes, she said during a special episode of BBC Radio 4’s Today program, which airs on New Year’s Eve.

Now 78, the queen said in the interview that “When I was a teenager, I was attacked on a train. I’d sort of forgotton about it,…