On 5 March, Annabel’s in Mayfair, the private members’ club hosted its seventh annual International Women’s Day event with The Caring Family Foundation. The morning gathering brought together an impressive panel of voices – including Soma Sara, founder of Everyone’s Invited, actress Lucy Boynton (who most recently played Ruth Ellis in the ITV drama A Cruel Love about the last woman to be hanged in the UK; she killed her abuser), criminologist Professor Katrin Hohl OBE, domestic abuse survivor and campaigner Natalie Queiroz MBE – alongside broadcaster June Sarpong OBE, who chaired the discussion under this year’s theme, ‘Give To Gain’.
The conversation ranged from culture to justice, and how we need to call out abuse when we see it. Natalie Queiroz MBE spoke powerfully about her own experience of domestic abuse and her journey from survivor to campaigner. She was stabbed 27 times, while eight months pregnant – she had a good job, lived in a ‘good’ part of town and wasn’t your ‘stereotypical’ victim. It is easy to assume that domestic abuse is someone else’s problem – something happening behind closed doors. But the reality is far closer. It is present in cities and villages, in workplaces and homes, among people who appear outwardly successful and secure.
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