Camilla's ABUSE SHOCKER

Newly uncovered documents give fresh insight into Queen Camilla’s longtime campaign against domestic violence

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The handwritten report, filed as part of divorce papers in 1919, was explicit. On Aug. 17, 1916, “Philip Morton Shand violently assaulted [his wife, Edith,] by dragging her by her arms out of bed in her night-dress, bruising her breast and knees and knocking her head, as a result of which [she] fainted,” the document reads, noting that Edith was four months pregnant.

More than 100 years later, her granddaughter Queen Camilla has made it her mission to fight for victims of abuse. “I think we all know somebody who it’s happened to,” Camilla, whose father, Bruce, was the product of Philip and Edith’s brief, unhappy marriage, has said. “There’s such a taboo. It becomes a sort of terrible hidden secret.”