The Queen of the United Kingdom, Camilla, sends a letter to a French woman whose husband invited men to violate her

Last update:March 13, 2025, 19:09 IST

Gisele Pelicot became a symbol in France in the fight against sexual abuse of women for their difficult situation.

Gisele Pelicot’s husband drugged her and recruited strangers to rape her for more than a decade. (Image: AFP/Reuters)

The Queen of Great Britain, Camilla, wrote a private letter to the Frenchman Gisele Pelicot, who was drugged and raped for a decade for her now ex -husband and strangers that she enlisted online, fountains said Thursday.

Camilla, 77, has long been a vocal activist to improve support for violation and abuse survivors.

“As a long -term supporter of the survivors of domestic and sexual abuse, the Queen wrote to Madame Pélicot in private,” a palace source told Newsweek magazine, and added that the letter was in the “instigation” of the queen.

“It was tremendously affected by the case of Madame Pelicot in France and the extraordinary dignity and courage of that lady,” said the source of the palace.

“Because as he expressed rightly, why should he be forced to feel like a victim or hide in shame?”

Pelicot’s lawyer Antoine Camus confirmed to AFP that his client had received a letter from the Buckingham Palace, but did not disclose its “private” content.

Pelicot’s husband, Dominique, 72, was tried along with 50 other men and sentenced to 20 years for aggravated violation in the French city of Aviñón in December.

Dozens of men who visited the family home to rape Gisele Pelicot, who was unconscious after being drugged by her husband, received terms between three and 15 years. Some now appeal their prayers.

A source with knowledge of the letter confirmed to AFP that it had been sent by Camilla, but Buckingham Palace did not want to comment publicly.

The lawyer Camus told Le Monde Daily that Pelicot was “stamped, moved and very proud to see that he managed to get the care of the royal family in England.”

Pelicot, 72, was acclaimed as a hero for giving up his anonymity and said that “he never regretted” to open the trial to the public.

She said after the trial that she was now thinking of the “unrecognized victims whose stories often remain in the shadows.”

More than 173,000 people have signed an online petition that asks the Nobel Peace Prize to be awarded to Pelicot.

“It is difficult to think of any form of violence that raises a greater challenge for peace than sexual violence. It is gender and endemic, “said Catherine Mayer, who launched the appeal at Change.org.

“Gisele Pelicot crossed the Smog of misinformation by giving up his anonymity to attend the judgment of his attackers and testifying,” he added.

(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a FEED union news agency – AFP)

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