Queen Camilla warns of ‘terrifying’ domestic violence

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Queen Camilla warns of ‘terrifying’ domestic *********

“You can imagine how terrifying it is for a woman to be stuck with a very violent partner, feeling that ***** every single day,” says Queen Camilla in a forthcoming TV documentary about tackling domestic ******.

The Queen has been campaigning for many years to raise awareness of domestic and ******* ********* – and in this ITV film she talks candidly to some of its victims.

“By scratching the surface you get a terrible shock. It’s such a heinous ******,” says the Queen, who has called for domestic ********* to be talked about more openly.

The Queen also says in the film that King Charles, who is undergoing ******* treatment, is “doing really well” and that the “problem is trying to stop him”.

Queen Camilla has been a longstanding campaigner against domestic ****** and uses this documentary to say it should not be a ****** subject.

“If we could just get more people discussing it…” she says, as she highlights how ****** can mean psychological manipulation as well as physical attacks.

“Coercive control is almost the most frightening bit of domestic ******. You meet somebody, you think they’re wonderful, attractive, and love you, and then bit by bit they start to undermine you,” says Queen Camilla.

“They take away your friends, they take away your family. They take control of your money. They start dressing you. And yet all the time I suppose people still believe they’re doing it because they love them,” she says in the documentary, to be screened later this month.

One of the survivors of domestic ******, who meets the Queen, talks of the “invisible chains” that stop people escaping, particularly when they have children.

There are also accounts of *********, aggression and threats – and the Queen visits a refuge for women seeking a safe place to escape.

Also appearing is former prime minister Theresa May who talks to human rights lawyer Cherie Blair about changing attitudes to domestic ******.

“Domestic ****** was something that happened behind closed doors and you didn’t interfere,” she says. “Police always used that phrase, ‘oh, it’s a domestic’, and wasn’t anything to do with them.

“Over the years we’ve realised that domestic ****** is wider than what we used to call it… It’s about trying to take control over an individual person’s life,” adds the former PM.

“Domestic ****** doesn’t have to be physical. And it is actually all about power and control,” says Cherie Blair.

The documentary reports that in England and Wales last year more than two million people experienced some form of domestic ******. And on average, every five days a woman was ******* by a current or former partner.

In the documentary, the Queen meets Diana Parkes, whose daughter was ******* by her estranged husband.

“I think she’s so strong because not many people would be able to survive the ****** of their daughter. I admire her more than I can say,” says the Queen.

The issue of domestic ********* has been a consistent theme in the Queen’s visits – both in the *** and abroad, including her most recent trip to Australia and Samoa.

At an event at the Commonwealth summit in Samoa, she said there was a “gigantic task ahead of us”, needing the support of both men and women. “It is this: to end domestic and ******* ********* across the Commonwealth, now and for ever.”

She had previously warned of a “pandemic” of ********* against women and invited campaigners to Buckingham Palace.

In the wake of the

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, Camilla said that there was an urgent need to challenge a culture in which it seemed “********* against women is normal”.

Her Majesty The Queen: Behind Closed Doors: 11 November, 21.00, ITV1

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