What do you do? Go on the M25 then down the M4 is it?ĬAMILLA: Yes, you go, um, and sort of Royston or M11, at that time of night], but the damage had been done. Then the conversations veers off into more the sort of chat you’d expect from an older couple as they discuss the quickest way to get to Bowood, a suggested meeting place.ĬHARLES: Oh, right. Just my luck! (Laughs)ĬAMILLA: You are a complete idiot! (Laughs) Oh, what a wonderful idea Oh, you’re going to come back as a pair of knickers.ĬHARLES: Or, God forbid, a Tampax. It would be much easier!ĬAMILLA: (laughing) What are you going to turn into, a pair of knickers? (Both laugh). I’ll just live inside your trousers or something. Then - in an idea that they probably both still wake up in a cold sweat about even now - they went.even deeper:ĬHARLES: Oh, God. ĬAMILLA: Oh, that's just what I need at the moment.
This is the call, 30 years on:ĬHARLES: Oh stop! I want to feel my way along you, all over you and up and down you and in and out. Even worse, there was full audio to accompany it, thanks to a rogue radio enthusiast who had stumbled upon the chat using a hi-tech scanning device.Įarly on in the call, the couple – both married to other people at the time – dabbled in double entendres, before going full-on raunch.
Under a headline ‘Charles and Camilla - the tape’, the explicit six-minute phone call went into excruciating detail as the long-time lovers fantasised about being intimate with each other. The press had an absolute field day when, just three months after Charles and Princess Diana had formally separated, a full transcript of a ‘sexy’ telephone call between Charles and Camilla in 1989 was printed in the People newspaper. What's really is how invasive and disgusting was the press's attention to it, that they printed it out verbatim and you could call a number and listen to the actual tape.” “Looking back on it, and having to play it, what you're conscious of is that the blame was not with these two people, two lovers, who were having a private conversation. Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, he said: “I remember thinking it was something so sordid and deeply, deeply embarrassing. When the racy scene aired on The Crown – series 5, episode 5: The Way Ahead, fyi – Prince Charles actor Dominic West said not only did he relish playing this part of royal history alongside his Camilla (Olivia Williams), but it reframed his opinion on the whole scandal.
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