Queen Camilla suffered an attempted sexual assault as a teenager, according to a new book about the British royal family. Camilla allegedly managed to repel the attacker by digging into him with the heel of her shoe. The episode is described in Power and the Palace, a new book about the royal family by Valentine Low, who had worked on The Times. According to the author, the queen explained her experience to Boris Johnson in 2008, when he was mayor of London.