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This Is Why

Queen Camilla: For The Love of Charles - Episode One: The Tape

This Is Why

Sky News

News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.0552 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In 1989, somewhere in the English countryside, an amateur radio enthusiast stumbled across a private telephone conversation. The call, between the then Prince Charles and his secret lover, Camilla Parker Bowles, was recorded. Its illicit content – once revealed - would change the future of the Royal Family.

In the first episode of this three-part series, Kay Burley takes us back to the start of Camilla’s story, as we explore her early years and first meetings with the future King Charles.

The episode includes a reconstruction, voiced by actors, of some of the now infamous "Camillagate" tapes.

For more from Queen Camilla: For The Love Of Charles, listen to the full series here.

Presenter: Kay Burley
Producer: Soila Apparicio
Assistant Producers: Alex Edden and Lily Thomas
Sound Designer: James Bradshaw
Promotion Producer: David Chipakupaku
Executive Producer: Rob Mulhern
Editor: Paul Stanworth

Audio credits:
BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour
ITV Camilla’s Country Life

Transcript

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0:00.0

This Easter at M&S, you'll find a selection of the yummias chocolate animals.

0:04.5

There's Hick up the hippo with his darling chubby little legs.

0:08.0

And Sunny the Sloth, beaming with his milk and white chocolate features.

0:12.5

Toby the T-Rex, who's a bit green, bit scary, but charming at the same time.

0:17.4

And Ralph the Cavapoo.

0:19.2

I almost don't want to bite his scrump just little nose right off,

0:22.8

but I will. All of these cuties for just seven pounds each. This is not just food. This is

0:28.1

M&S food. Selected stores.

0:35.6

I need you all the week, all the time.

0:38.6

Oh God, I'll just live inside your trousers or something.

0:41.9

It'll be much easier.

0:43.7

What are you going to turn into a pair of knickers?

0:46.8

It's the night of the 17th of December, 1989.

0:51.3

And somewhere in the English countryside, a radio enthusiast is scanning between frequencies, often used by police officers and pirate radio DJs, when he stumbles across a private phone conversation between a man and a woman.

1:05.7

Oh, darling, I just want you now.

1:08.3

Do you?

1:08.9

And so do I.

1:10.8

Desperately, desperately, desperately. It's obvious they're loving. I do you? Desperately, desperately, desperately.

1:12.6

It's obvious they're lovers,

1:14.5

but would that be enough reason to press record on a scanner?

1:18.9

I do love you, and I'm so proud of you.

1:22.0

Oh, I'm so proud of you.

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