Prince Charles star on ‘sordid’ The Crown moment

Royal Family ‘incredibly nervous’ news season of The Crown

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Each episode of Netflix’s gripping royal drama has come with its fair share of controversy, and this year’s fifth season won’t be any different. With newcomers Dominic West and Olivia Williams joining the cast as Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles, the stars have opened up about how one of the most revealing moments of their relationship will play out in an upcoming episode of The Crown.

Prince Charles star Dominic has assured viewers the ‘tampongate’ moment between the current King and his wife Camilla will be portrayed sensitively.

While the incredibly private conversation will indeed feature in the new season of The Crown, the actor maintained the British public’s reaction to the leak was the most troubling thing about the story, and not the conversation itself.

Although he didn’t give it as much thought when the phone call was released, Dominic explained: “The research showed me how badly Camilla was treated.

“I don’t think that would happen today. It happened for many reasons, one of them being she’s a woman.”

In 1989, a private conversation between Prince Charles and Camilla was recorded by an amateur radio enthusiast when he stumbled across their phone call while moving between channels.

Their leaked conversation, branded ‘tampongate’, saw the former prince referring to being reincarnated as a Tampax tampon and “living inside” Camilla.

The audio recording was sold to the British tabloids along with a full transcript of the six-minute call.

It was later circulated again by The People in 1993, following Charles and Camilla’s separation.

“Like most people, I remember thinking it was a sordid, embarrassing discussion,” Dominic told Radio Times.

“But, revisiting it, I found it was just an intensely personal conversation, and what was sordid was the prurient interest in it.

“Most people, if they’re lucky enough, will have had conversations like that with people they love.

“It’s very sweet, tender and gauche but, like any intensely personal conversation, just not for public consumption.”

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Netflix bosses received considerable backlash from fans when it was confirmed the new season would feature the controversial moment in royal history.

However, as reported by the Telegraph, the scene is said to have been depicted ‘sympathetically’ as a show of goodwill towards the King and Queen Consort.

Despite these claims, two of the paper’s sources have still called the decision “crass” and “in bad taste” ahead of the call’s inclusion in The Crown season five.

Moreover, former Prince Charles star Josh O’Connor had to put his foot down over the scene when he first auditioned for the role.

“When they offered me the role, one of my first questions was – I say questions, I think it was pretty much a statement – ‘We are not doing the tampon phone call,’” he told SiriusXM.

“[The Crown] was my one chance for my parents to see something [I’ve acted in] with no shame and there’s no way I was going to scuttle that by talking about tampons on Netflix.”

It won’t be long before the new season is released for millions of viewers worldwide and Netflix producers find out if they’ve landed in even more hot water over the series’ depiction of the Royal Family.

The Crown season 5 will be released on Wednesday, November 9 on Netflix.

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