THE fifth season of The Crown will feature the infamous ‘Tampongate’ phone call between Charles and Camilla.
Nearly two and a half years after Josh O’Connor declared The Crown would not include the scandalous call, it’s now been confirmed that it actually is happening.
And it’s O’Connor’s successor, Dominic West, who’s spilled the tea on the upcoming scene.
West, who is playing the younger version of King Charles III in the upcoming seasons, revealed that the 1993 phone call will make it in the show.
“I remember thinking it was something so sordid and deeply, deeply embarrassing at the time,” he told Entertainment Weekly.
“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.
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“What’s really clear now 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.
“I think it made me extremely sympathetic towards the two of them and what they’d gone through.”
Charles, then a young Prince Charles, was secretly recorded in 1989 having a conversation with Camilla, in which he told her he wanted to “live inside” her trousers.
She responded asking if he was going to be reincarnated as “a pair of knickers,” to which Charles responded by saying that, with his luck, he’d return as a tampon.
The British tabloids would later publish transcripts of the secretly recorded conversations in 1993, at the height of Charles and Princess Diana’s hugely publicized separation and subsequent divorce.
In May 2020, O’Connor appeared on SiriusXM’s EW Live and shut the door on recreating ‘Tampongate’.
The Crown returns to Netflix for its fifth season on Wednesday, November 9.
