The Queen was sexually assaulted as a teenager, a new royal book has claimed. The incident is said to have happened on a train to Paddington when Camilla was a 16 or 17-year-old schoolgirl, when a man attempted to touch her. The revelation has appeared in an upcoming book by former royal correspondent, Valentine Low, titled Power and the Palace: The Inside Story of the Monarchy and 10 Downing Street , serialised in The Times.

Camilla is said to have recounted the assault to Boris Johnson, who was Mayor of London at the time, revealing that she fought the assailant off with the heel of her shoe.

Boris' communications director Guto Harri recalled of the conversation . "She was on a train going to Paddington — she was about 16, 17 — and some guy was moving his hand further and further

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