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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Caroline Davies

Camilla lauds suffragette stones of ‘hope’ – and gets very own Barbie doll

Camilla with a Barbie doll in her image at a reception for the Women of the World festival in London.
Camilla with a Barbie doll in her image at a reception for the Women of the World festival in London. Photograph: Paul Grover/AP

Two stones thrown at Buckingham Palace windows during a suffragette protest more than a century ago and saved for posterity represented “hope to the women who threw them”, Queen Camilla has told equality campaigners.

While some of the suffragette’s more destructive tactics could not be condoned today, Camilla said there was “sermon in the stones” that had cracked two window panes but were kept by the royal family.

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