Prince Charles is “Deeply Ashamed” of Infamous Camilla Phone Call

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The 1990s headlines are almost too bizarre to be believed.

The transcript reads like something out of a used bookstore romance novel: “I fill up your tank.” “Your great achievement is to love me.” “I’d suffer anything for you. That’s love. It’s the strength of love.”

Add in some crude jokes that aren’t worth a rehash here—if you know, you know *cringe*—and that encompasses “Camillagate,” the transcript of an affectionate phone call between Prince Charles and the then Camilla Parker Bowles that was published on the front pages for days while both were very much still married to Princess Diana and Andrew Parker Bowles, their respective spouses.

“He knows that people not sympathetic to him or the monarchy will recall it at the time of his coronation and at all other meaningful moments in his life,” Hodgson says. “He remains deeply ashamed of the embarrassment that he caused his mother, deeply sorry for the pain it caused both his and Camilla’s children.”

The “Camillagate” transcripts came out in early 1993, but were recorded in 1989, when the Prince and Princess of Wales were very much not separated, according to the. To be fair, Diana had her own embarrassing phone call—“Squidgygate,” as it is known—and both Charles and Diana sat down for televised interviews in the following years to explain their respective positions, Charles with Jonathan Dimbleby in 1994 and Diana, controversially, with Martin Bashir in 1995.

“Charles and Camilla continued their romantic relationship, and the Duchess was slowly integrated into his public life, despite the public’s resistance,” theAt the time, it was announced that Camilla would be known as Princess Consort upon Charles’ accession to the throne.

 

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