The fifth season of The Crown hit Netflix on 9 November and the “tampongate” scene between King Charles III and his then “mistress” Camilla has set tongues wagging on Twitter.
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WHAT IS ‘TAMPONGATE’?
The fifth season of The Crown was set to cowl the alleged affair between King Charles and his then “mistress”, who’s now the Queen Consort.
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The sequence devoted a whole episode to the pair’s “tampongate” – an specific phone dialog between them which was leaked. So, why is that this referred to as tampongate?
According to Harper Bazaar, the non-public phone dialog between His Majesty and Camilla happened whereas they had been nonetheless married to their respective spouses. The dialog happened in December 1989 and was secretly recorded and leaked to the press.
The name set tongues wagging as Charles was nonetheless married to Princess Diana and Camilla was married to Andrew Parker Bowles. In the notorious name, Charles mentioned that he wished to dwell in Camilla’s trousers.
She then joked that he can be reincarnated as a “pair of knickers” to which he responded – along with his luck he would find yourself as a tampon as a substitute. The Crown confirmed completely different members of the royal household’s response to the leaked dialog together with Princess Diana and Princess Anne.
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TWEEPS REACT TO TAMPONGATE
Twitter customers thought the tampongate scene was “cringe” and worse than they anticipated. Take a glance…
“Tampongate was just as cringe as I’d imagined,” wrote @_faithphiri.
“Finished The Crown season 5. Tampongate was gross 🤮 the Queen & co. should have been more kind to Diana after that. Also, I couldn’t help but think of Professor Umbridge throughout the entire season,” wrote @BLUESTARFTW.
While others praised the present.
“For all the brouhaha about how #TheCrown was going to insult Charles by resurrecting ‘tampongate’ etc, I actually thought that episode portrayed his and Camilla’s relationship really humanely (and sometimes verged into the hagiographic, with how it ended about his charity work),” wrote @AyoCaesar.
“Oh f***** hell I’m on tampongate episode #TheCrown this is what these clowns were so upset about haaaaaaa they don’t even specifically go into detail like the actual recording,” wrote @fireinherveinzz.
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