TheCrown recreates one of King Charles’s most humiliating moments.
Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life,“It did strike me as more than ironic that when so much of the series is made up—dialogue made up, scenes made up—that it would seek refuge in the factual when it suited their purposes and demean[ed the royal family]. So here we do have an instance in a series that is largely fictional of them recreating the facts of what [Charles and Camilla] said because the [actual words] put them in a very bad light.
If you look past the racy language, Smith admits that the extended conversation—which covered subjects more serious than sexy—did provide interesting, new insight into the relationship between Charles and Camilla when it was first published by British newspapers in 1993. “What I found fascinating about it was really not so much the language that they used, which was eye-opening for the heir apparent and his girlfriend, but that it showed their dynamic—that she was attuned to nuance and she was shrewd and she understood the motivations of other people and how people even in their social set bowed and scraped to him because he was who he was,” says Smith.
The original phone conversation was meant to be private. In December 1989, Parker Bowles was inside her family home speaking to Prince Charles at night. Her husband was away at work, according to Smith’s biography of Charles, but her children were in the house for the holidays. And Prince Charles, who had just wrapped up an exhausting tour, was speaking from the home of a friend, Anne Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster.
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