The Duchess of Cornwall has conducted a revealing interview about the rising number of domestic abuse cases over the past 12 months.
Speaking at a women s refuge in Reading, Berkshire, the royal revealed the very personal effect witnessing domestic abuse has had on her.
Camilla, 73, spoke passionately about the fact many of us across Britain will know domestic abuse victims and may not even admit it.
Earlier this year, Camilla revealed her own friends had suffered domestic violence and she has long advocated for more specialist support, becoming the patron for charity SafeLives last year.
The Duchess was left visibly shaken after speaking to survivors in 2016, but she broached the topic very differently this time around on her first in-person visit to a domestic abuse refuge since lockdown restrictions eased.
Duchess of Cornwall: ‘We all know someone in an abusive relationship’
We join Her Royal Highness on a visit to a domestic abuse refuge – and learn why it is a cause so close to her heart
7 May 2021 • 9:00pm
The Duchess of Cornwall talks to a domestic abuse victim at a refuge run by Berkshire Women’s Aid
Credit: Clara Molden for The Telegraph
The last time the Duchess of Cornwall appeared in public, on April 17, she was standing solemnly beside Prince Charles at the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral, as her husband of 16 years struggled to hide his grief from the eyes of the world.
Martin J. Smith
Bower House, 2021.
The history of transgender people in the United States is nearly invisible, buried in institutional archives. Our personal stories are often preserved as medical or psychological “case studies” that portray us as disfigured and mentally ill even criminals. When these documents record gender transitions, they emphasize “the surgery” the procedures that can often offer good outcomes for transgender people, but can neither predict future happiness nor resolve systemic transphobia.
In
Going to Trinidad: A Doctor, A Colorado Town, and Stories from an Unlikely Gender Crossroads, journalist Martin J. Smith leans heavily on medical histories to tell the intimate, sometimes hair-raising stories of transgender people and the small clinic in remote, rural southern Colorado that served them in the second half of the 20th century. The book both illuminates and obscures the complexity of transitioning.