Camilla Parker Bowles once found a bold and creative way to fend off a brazen attacker. The true tale comes from the pages of an upcoming book by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Page Six says an excerpt from the book reveals the harrowing incident took place onboard a train when Camilla was just a teenager.
The report says Valentine Low, a former royal correspondent, said Camilla once shared the story with former UK Prime Minister over tea while visiting her and King Charles at in 2008. Johnson was the London mayor at the time, per Page Six. Read on to learn what happened.
Camilla Parker Bowles Stood Up to Threatening Attacker on Train
The report says that according to Johnson’s former communications director, Guto Harri, Camilla was around 16 or 17 years old when her train trip to Paddington took a terrifying turn.
A male passenger began “making guttural noises about how much he admired and liked her,” before approaching Camilla and attempting an assault. “Some guy was moving his hand further and further,” Harri says he learned from the queen.
He says Camilla told him she acted fast. “I did what my mother taught me to. I took off my shoe and whacked him in the nuts with the heel,” said the 78-year-old.
Harri says the man was arrested after Camilla darted off the train and reported the incident to someone in uniform.
Page Six says Camilla and Johnson didn’t immediately reply to their requests for comment on the story.
GettyQueen Camilla Recently Enjoyed Yacht Vacation With Family
Town & Country reported on August 12, 2025 that the queen enjoyed a late summer vacation in the Mediterranean with her loved ones. The report says the royal was seen off the coast of Greece on a $40 million superyacht called Zenobia.
The outlet says the yacht’s owner, Wafic Saïd, told the Mirror that he has counted the Parker-Bowles family among his close friends for over 40 years. He revealed Camilla’s son Tom was a classmate of his own child.
The businessman added he was “pleased” to offer his boat to the high profile family, and glad to know Camilla was “enjoying time with her children and grandchildren.”
People says Camilla is a mother of two children, and stepmother to two more. She shares Tom Parker Bowles and Laura Lopes with her late ex-husband, Andrew Parker Bowles. As fans know, Camilla became the stepmother of Prince Harry and Prince William when she married their father, King Charles, in April 2005.
She is also a grandmother to five, per People.
