Queen Camilla will “keep trying” to raise awareness of domestic abuse.
Queen Camilla is determined to raise awareness
The 77-year-old royal has been campaigning on the issue for more than a decade, and Camilla is encouraged by the progress she’s seen in that time.
Speaking in the ITV documentary, ‘Her Majesty The Queen: Behind Closed Doors’, she says: “If you look at the steps we have since the bad old days, we have made a huge amount of progress and I shall keep on trying until I am able to, no more.”
Despite this, Camilla is refusing to get carried way by the progress she’s seen.
She said: “Don’t let’s kid ourselves, it’s going to take a long long time because it’s been going forever. You know, it’s been going, well, since time began.”
Camilla described domestic abuse as a “heinous crime” and she’s encouraged people to speak more openly about their experiences.
She explained: “If we could just get more people discussing it, talking about it, people are so shocked by what they hear, that, rather like me, that they want to say, ‘Hang on a minute, perhaps there’s something we can help with’ to hopefully, in the end, put an end to it.”
Camilla previously detailed the progress that has been made over recent decades.
She said during a speech at Clarence House in 2022: “Fifty years ago, there was almost no support available: no helplines, no counselling, nowhere to go, no specialist laws, and, perhaps most painfully, very little public understanding of the issue. It was a taboo subject: what happened at home stayed at home.
“But suddenly, with the creation of the first refuge, domestic abuse began to come into the national consciousness. People were, at last, hearing the message that it was wrong to use violence against your partner and that, if the victim chose to leave, she would be helped every step of the way.”