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

In speech as president of Women of the World festival, queen shows audience objects thrown at palace windows in 1914 protest

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.