Queen Camilla left in tears after emotional encounter during domestic abuse documentary

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Queen Camilla has made a powerful statement, opening up about her decade-long commitment to combating domestic and sexual violence in a new ITV1 documentary.

She reflects on the cause that she has held close to her heart with the heartfelt declaration. “It’s such a heinous crime,” Queen Camilla says early in the documentary. “If we could just get people discussing it and talking about it, people are so shocked by what they hear that – rather like me – they want to say, ‘Hang on a minute, maybe there’s something we can help with to put an end to it.’” The 77 year old Royal is featured attending various events and engaging directly with survivors and activists to break down barriers surrounding the topic.

Queen Camilla recounts attending a SafeLives event - a pivotal experience marked by a moving speech that ignited her passion for the cause.There she met the mother of a mum-of-two who was murdered by her partner, and listened to a speech by the victim’s best friend. “My reaction I’m afraid was to cry,” Her Majesty admits. “I looked around and there were quite a lot of police and quite a lot of quite hard-nosed journalists around and there wasn’t a dry eye in the place.

We were all so shocked by what we heard. It was certainly my reaction. I thought, ‘I just want to do something about this.’” The mother Camilla met was Diana Parkes, whose daughter Joanna Simpson was beaten to death by her estranged husband in 2010.