Queen: I was assaulted on train
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Queen Camilla tells the BBC that as a teenager, she was the victim of an attempted indecent assault on a train journey. She says she fought off her attacker and felt furious about the experience for many years afterwards. The Queen has been a long-standing campaigner against sexual violence. Also: delivery workers go on strike in India; why it's been a bumper year for gold and silver; how to create a factory in space; the peril of the albatross in South Africa; and why American music fans can't get enough of Spanish-language tunes.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.5 | I'm Ankara to say and at 1600 GMT on Wednesday the 31st of December. |
| 0:16.7 | These are our main stories. |
| 0:18.6 | In an interview with the BBC, Queen Camilla has shared publicly |
| 0:21.7 | for the first time her own experience of an attempted indecent assault. Tens of thousands of |
| 0:27.3 | app-based delivery workers in India are holding a day-long strike demanding better pay and conditions, |
| 0:33.2 | and gold and silver are on track to record their biggest annual gains in 46 years. |
| 0:40.8 | Also in this podcast, we ask what the future might look like for those born into generation |
| 0:45.3 | beta between 2025 and 2034. And a UK company says it's close to manufacturing materials in space |
| 0:52.9 | by sending a microwave-sized factory |
| 0:55.5 | into orbit. What we do in space is we effectively make the sourdough starter. We then bring |
| 1:00.9 | that starter back to Earth, basically put it into semiconductor-grade ovens, more ingredients, |
| 1:05.6 | and we bake loaves and lobes of semiconductors. |
| 1:18.6 | Violence against women remains one of the world's most persistent and under-addressed human rights crises, with very little progress in two decades, according to the World Health |
| 1:23.9 | Organization and the United Nations. |
| 1:26.4 | Today, for the first time publicly, |
| 1:28.4 | Queen Camilla has been speaking about her own experience of an attempted indecent assault as a |
| 1:33.4 | teenager. She talked about the incident during a discussion on violence against women. |
| 1:39.2 | A lot of people, myself included, do not know how bad it is out there. The majority of people actually |
| 1:46.8 | don't want to know. It's been a taboo subject for so long. People haven't talked about it. |
| 1:52.1 | You mentioned, everybody says, shh, let's change the subject. Do you feel that that was part of |
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