This compelling and hopeful film showed just how much the Queen's support for domestic abuse charities has already effected change
This compelling and hopeful film showed just how much the Queen's support for domestic abuse charities has already effected change. In 2016, the then-Duchess of Cornwall met Diana Parkes, the mother of Joanna Simpson, a 46-year-old from York who was bludgeoned to death and buried by her husband six years earlier.
At a women’s refuge, we saw a room being made ready for a family – ingredients arranged on the counter with the knowledge that the mother would want to cook a meal for her children, the careful positioning of a clutch of secondhand toys. To reach this stage, we were told, the abused often experience around 50 incidents before getting effective help. On average, it will take them seven attempts before they are able to leave for good. But funding to help domestic abuse survivors is sorely lacking.
It was a documentary that balanced horror and hope. The survivors’ stories were compelling while never being sensationalised. And the questions so commonly asked by those on the outside – why didn’t you tell anyone? Why did you stay? – were addressed without rancour. Survivors spoke of “invisible chains” of terror, of fear for their children, and that word again: shame.
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