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Woman's Hour

Camilla the Duchess of Cornwall, Diana Parkes, David Trickey, Baroness Floella Benjamin

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Camilla the Duchess of Cornwall is now at the heart of the royal family. In her ascension day message which begins a year of celebrations to mark seventy years on the throne, the Queen said that once Prince Charles becomes King, her sincere wish is that Camilla will be at his side as Queen Consort. It's recognition for her loyalty, and her work campaigning on a variety of causes and in particular that of domestic abuse. It was a meeting in 2016 with a woman called Diana Parkes that inspired the Duchess. Diana's daughter Joanna Simpson was battered to death by her estranged husband in 2010 with their two children within earshot. After the killing, Diana setup a foundation to help transform the lives of children impacted by domestic violence and it was at a meeting of the charity SafeLives that she first met the Duchess. In our interview we reunite them at Clarence House to hear how her story has inspired the work of a future Queen. Emma also speaks to the clinical psychologist David Trickey from the child mental health charity the Anna Freud Centre and to Baroness Floella Benjamin who campaigned to get the new Domestic Abuse Act through parliament and she’s also a Vice President of the children’s charity Barnardos. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Editor: Karen Dalziel Studio Manager: Bob Nettles

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0:00.0

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0:05.3

Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:10.5

Hello and welcome to the programme.

0:12.3

And in this special edition of Woman's Hour,

0:14.4

you're going to hear two women reunited over a cause,

0:18.2

a cause that has defined one of their lives

0:20.6

and is increasingly a bigger part of the others.

0:23.7

It also happens that one of the women

0:25.3

is set to be the future queen consort

0:27.5

as recently announced by her Majesty.

0:30.0

Camilla Duchess of Cornwall first met Diana Parks in 2016

0:33.9

at a meeting of the domestic abuse charity Safe Lives

0:37.2

where Diana shared the story of what had happened

0:40.1

to her daughter, Joanna.

0:42.1

Joanna, known as Joe to her family and friends,

0:45.0

was battered to death in 2010 by her estranged husband

0:48.6

with their two children within earshot.

0:51.6

He was later imprisoned and Diana in her early 70s

0:55.0

immediately took her two grandchildren who were nine and ten

0:58.5

to where she lives on the Isle of Man

1:00.3

and began parenting all over again in retirement.

1:04.3

Camilla heard in great detail that story,

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