{"id":504275,"date":"2025-10-16T13:45:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/504275\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T13:45:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:45:17","slug":"what-really-happened-in-the-tampongate-scandal-how-infidelity-and-secrets-destroyed-this-royal-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/504275\/","title":{"rendered":"What really happened in the \u2018Tampongate\u2019 scandal? How infidelity and secrets destroyed this royal union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By the late 1980s, Prince Charles had resumed his long-standing relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles. However in January 1993, the British tabloids were rocked by the publication of a six-minute telephone conversation between Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles, recorded in December 1989. The conversation, which was never intended for public ears, contained intimate and suggestive remarks, including Charles&#8217;s infamous joke about being reincarnated as a tampon if he had to be reincarnated as an item of Camilla&#8217;s clothing, lamenting that his bad luck would be to end up being flushed down a toilet. This revelation, dubbed &#8216;Tampongate&#8217; by the media, occurred shortly after Charles and Princess Diana&#8217;s formal separation, casting a long shadow over the royal family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By the late 1980s, Prince Charles had resumed his long-standing relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles. However in January&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7708],"tags":[165211,77741,22359,7709,13080,1759,7730,165203,7861,7731,165202,165206,111622,165208,165205,165213,165214,165212,72678,1760,165204,165210,9729,1412,165199,165209,158694,60157,7710,519,38488,56600,165207,165200,126261,165201,165198],"class_list":["post-504275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-royals","tag-1990s-royal-scandal","tag-bbc-panorama","tag-british-monarchy","tag-british-royal-family","tag-british-royals","tag-camilla-parker-bowles","tag-charles","tag-charles-affair","tag-charles-and-camilla","tag-charles-iii","tag-diana-affair","tag-diana-and-camilla","tag-diana-and-charles","tag-diana-and-james-hewitt","tag-diana-interview","tag-diana-legacy","tag-diana-marriage","tag-diana-separation","tag-infidelity","tag-king-charles","tag-martin-bashir","tag-monarchy-scandal","tag-prince-charles","tag-princess-diana","tag-royal-affair","tag-royal-betrayal","tag-royal-controversy","tag-royal-divorce","tag-royal-families","tag-royal-family","tag-royal-family-drama","tag-royal-history","tag-royal-love-triangle","tag-royal-marriage","tag-royal-scandal","tag-royal-secrets","tag-tampongate"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}