Queen Camilla has told BBC racing commentator John Hunt and his daughter Amy, whose family was murdered at their home last year, that they would be “so proud of you both”.
Louise Hunt, 25, her sister Hannah, 28, and their mother Carol, 61, were killed by Kyle Clifford, 27, who was Louise’s ex-partner, in Bushey on July 9, 2024.
Mr Hunt and Amy set up The Hunt Family Fund in memory of their family to raise money for charities and causes that help and inspire young women.
The Queen attended a fundraising gala for the Fund in December, with her comments being broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. She said: “I’d just like to say, wherever your family is now, they’d be so proud of you both.
Queen Camilla spoke to John and Amy Hunt at The Hunt Family Fund gala in December
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“And they must be from above smiling down on you and thinking, my goodness me, what a wonderful, wonderful father, husband, sister.
“They’d just be so proud of you both.”
The conversation was recorded in the Garden Room at Clarence House in November and also included former Prime Minister Baroness Theresa May, and was chaired by BBC broadcaster Emma Barnett.
Mr Hunt said a year on after his family was killed it “remains really difficult on a minute-by-minute basis”, adding “but you have to try and find the strength in our position to arm yourself with as many tools as possible that are going to help you get through that next hour, get through that next day”.
He added: “At the risk of embarrassing Amy, she’s been my best counsel from the word go.
“We talk all the time. I used to say ‘I couldn’t do it without you’, but now I say ‘I can do it with you’.”
Louise Hunt, her sister Hannah and their mother Carol were murdered by Kyle Clifford in July 2024
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Ms Hunt added: “I think there’s a huge part of us that’s still in disbelief, in shock. Perhaps we’ll be in that state for the rest of our lives, given the magnitude of our loss.
“We miss them every single minute of the day.”
The Queen spoke how she previously went to a meeting of charity SafeLives and heard the stories of women who had been killed or attacked.
She added: “I remember being just so shocked and horrified by the whole thing, and there wasn’t a dry eye in the place, and it made me realise how naive I’d been about this sort of thing. I mean, we read about it occasionally in the papers, but we don’t realise that it’s happening all the time.”
“If you can get them early enough and teach them respect for women. I think that’s so important to get into schools.”
Amy Hunt added that the radicalisation of men by other men is a “huge problem”.
She said: “Unfortunately, it’s something that largely goes unchecked in these tech companies and social media companies, it’s somewhat allowed to run rampant.
“I suppose, if men have not had the best examples in life when they reach out to an online space looking for guidance and for some sort of mentor, these men in the online spaces such as Andrew Tate and his ilk, they provide that, and they provide easy answers.”
Queen Camilla also spoke on her own experiences during her meeting with John and Amy Hunt
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The Queen also recalled her own experience and how she was “so angry” and “furious” when she was attacked on a train as a teenager.
Camilla said: “Somebody I didn’t know. I was reading my book, and you know, this boy, man, attacked me, and I did fight back.
“And I remember getting off the train and my mother looking at me and saying: ‘Why is your hair standing on end?’ and: ‘Why is button missing from your coat?’”
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