Vogue Magazine

In late July for the 75^th birthday of the then HRH Duchess of Cornwall a special issue of Vogue Magazine was released. Within the magazine Camilla stated that it was her meeting with Diana at Safelives in 2016 that had inspired her to do anything that she could to support work against domestic violence.

A quote from HRH Duchess of Cornwall in the article:

“I think we all know somebody who it’s happened to,” the Duchess says, of her work with survivors. “I was hearing it too often, from friends who knew friends, and I thought maybe
I ought to look into it to see if there was somewhere for me to help.” In 2016 she attended a meeting at the SafeLives offices in London, where she heard the story of Joanna Brown, brutally killed in 2010 by her husband, a BA pilot. “Her mother [Diana Parkes] was sitting opposite me. I remember looking at her because, you know, you empathise with someone of the same generation. She took on the children and brought them up on the Isle of Man by herself. I saw her with tears pouring down her face. I’m afraid we all dissolved.”

The Duchess also reiterated these comments in her guest edit of Country Life Magazine