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The Duchess of Cornwall delivered a deeply impassioned speech on violence against women last night.

Highlighting the brutal deaths of Sarah Everard and Sabina Nessa among others, Camilla said a 'culture of silence' and feelings of shame led many women to conceal their abuse.

And she demanded: 'How many more women must be harassed, raped or murdered?'

The duchess also said it was crucial for women 'to get the men in our lives involved in this movement'.

She explained that without the whole of society taking the issue seriously, violence against women would continue to be 'just one of those things, part and parcel of being born female'.

The Prime Minister's wife, Carrie Johnson, 33, was in the audience at last night's event. She arrived at the Wellcome Trust in London ten minutes before the duchess and could be seen practising her curtsy before the royal arrived.