Queen Camilla praises mother of woman killed by her ex – and admits she wouldn’t be as ‘dignified’ in the same position [Video]

Queen Camilla has praised a domestic abuse campaigner whose daughter was bludgeoned to death with a hammer by her estranged and abusive husband as ‘wonderful’ and ‘dignified’ and admitted she ‘tried to put myself in your shoes’.

The royal, 77, features in the new ITV documentary, Her Majesty The Queen: Behind Closed Doors, which airs tonight at 9pm and highlights the progress being made to eliminate domestic and sexual violence in the UK. 

In a clip from the programme, Camilla, who was forced to pull out of her public engagements recently after becoming unwell with a chest infection, meets with Diana Parkes, who now runs a foundation to support children affected by domestic violence.

Diana’s daughter, Joanna Simpson, was brutally killed by her estranged husband Robert Brown, while their children were hiding in the playroom, in 2010.

Recalling the first time she met Diana and heard her story in 2016, the Queen says: ‘I tried to put myself in …