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Queen meets Gisele Pelicot and praises rape survivor's 'extraordinary dignity'

Queen Camilla praised Gisele Pelicot's courage after a trial convicting 50 men for sexual offenses, highlighting Pelicot's impact on changing the narrative around shame.

  • At Clarence House, Queen Camilla met Gisèle Pelicot on Monday and praised her 'extraordinary dignity and courage' in a letter sent last year.
  • Waiving anonymity, Gisèle Pelicot said shame should fall on her abusers after a trial in Avignon ended in December 2024 with 50 men guilty and Dominique Pelicot convicted.
  • Meeting over tea, the two women spoke for about 30 minutes and Camilla said, `I read it in the last two days, I couldn't put it down`, leaving her speechless by the memoir.
  • Promoting her memoir in the UK, Gisèle Pelicot has become a global symbol after waiving anonymity, and Camilla said she had 'inspired women across the globe' during the UK tour.
  • Against a backdrop of recent royal scrutiny, the Queen received Pelicot at Clarence House as Camilla, who was attacked as a teenager, reinforced her long campaign against domestic and sexual violence.
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Gisèle Pelicot (Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany, 73), a symbol of the struggle against macho violence, which she herself suffered for years as a victim of a process known as the Mazan rapes, has just published her book of memoirs, A hymn to life (Lumen, 2026). As the author herself declared exclusively during a conversation for El País Semanal, this work has been for her “a way of knowing me, of understanding how she was still standing [after so…

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A moving meeting in Clarence House: Queen Camilla receives Gisèle Pelicot – and confesses that her story made her speechless.

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The Telegraph broke the news in London, United Kingdom on Monday, February 23, 2026.
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